WASHINGTON - The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a dock facility along the coast of Venezuela, marking the first known land strike by the Trump administration inside the oil-rich South American country, CNN reported Monday night, citing anonymous sources familiar with the operation.

The strike targeted a remote dock that US officials believed was being used by a Venezuelan gang to store drugs and transfer them onto boats for shipment, the sources said.

No one was present at the site at the time of the strike, and there were no casualties, according to the CNN report.

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US President Donald Trump said earlier on Monday that the US knocked out a dock area where alleged drug traffickers loaded the boats up with drugs in Venezuela last week.

The US military on Monday destroyed a boat suspected of transporting drugs in international waters in the eastern Pacific, killing two men aboard, the US Southern Command said.

At the direction of the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the US Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted "a lethal kinetic strike" on the vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters, the command said in a post on the social platform X.

"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed. No US military forces were harmed," the command added.

As of Monday, the Pentagon has sunk 30 alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean since early September, killing at least 107 people aboard.

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For months, the United States has maintained a significant military presence in the Caribbean, much of it off Venezuela's coast, purportedly to combat drug trafficking - a claim Venezuela has denounced as a thinly veiled attempt to bring about government change in Caracas.