The U.S. military says it blew up two boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It says the strikes killed a total of five people and left one survivor.

The U.S. military killed four men on Tuesday in a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Pacific, its fourth vessel attack in four days.

The boat was the 50th that the Trump administration said it has attacked with use of the U.S. military to combat drug crimes since operations began in early September, according to a Pentagon posture ...