Mexican security forces killed the country’s most-wanted cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes in a high-stakes operation on Sunday that set off a spiral of violence and chaos.

The US military has killed at least 138 people in strikes that have destroyed 44 boats as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States. There have been at least four survivors of those strikes, two of whom were briefly detained by the US Navy before being returned to their home countries. Two others are presumed dead.

The US military has assembled a massive collection of weapons systems in the Middle East in the midst of ongoing diplomatic negotiations between the US and Iran, flooding ships and aircraft to nearby waters and the constellation of US bases in the region.

The US military is continuing a significant buildup of air and naval assets in the Middle East as negotiations over a deal with Iran continued with talks in Geneva on Tuesday. The pieces are being moved into place both to pressure Tehran as terms of a deal are discussed and to have options to strike inside the country should negotiations over its nuclear program fail, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

As President Donald Trump considers a major strike on Iran after discussions about limiting that nation’s nuclear program and ballistic missile production haven’t progressed, the US military has accelerated a weeks-long buildup of military hardware in the Middle East, open-source data shows.

A US-Mexican influencer who disappeared in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa on January 20 has been found alive and in good health, the Sinaloa Attorney General’s office said Saturday.

The audacious US operation to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro came down to an intense final firefight in which US helicopters were exposed to an extraordinary level of risk as they descended into a heavily fortified military compound in Caracas, according to key eyewitness videos analyzed by CNN.

The US is making plans to try to intercept a fleeing oil tanker that Russia has claimed jurisdiction over, according to four people familiar with the matter, setting up a possible confrontation between Washington and the Kremlin over the vessel’s fate.

A dramatic new phase of President Donald Trump’s showdown with Venezuela started Saturday, when the United States launched a large-scale series of strikes – followed hours later by Trump’s announcement that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro had been captured by US forces, and removed from the country.

Videos from the tragedy give a clearer picture of how the antisemitic attack unfolded and how an officer, armed only with a handgun, moved in to take out the attackers from 45 meters (150 feet) away – helping to end Australia’s worst mass shooting in almost 30 years.

CNN analyzed Venezuelan military footage, verified social media video, and other open-source data since early September to explore how President Nicolás Maduro’s regime is flexing its comparatively modest military muscle in its standoff with the US.

The US military conducted its largest show of force to date near Venezuela on Thursday, ahead of a key Monday deadline that will see the US designate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his government allies as members of a foreign terrorist organization.

The US military has undertaken a campaign against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea using a variety of drones, gunships, and fighter jets, according to people familiar with the assets being deployed.

Hurricane Melissa left a trail of destruction as it moved across Jamaica, seen for the first time from space in new satellite images obtained from Vantor.

President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that he could continue to launch strikes against alleged drug traffickers abroad without Congress first passing an official declaration of war.

The last time Andrés Fernando Tufiño Chila’s sister heard from him was about a year ago when he told her he was heading out to fish for work, she said. Last week, she was shocked to learn that her brother was aboard an alleged drug vessel that was struck by the US military.