Wrap up your week with the SOFREP Evening Brief – October 17, 2025.

US Captures Survivors After Caribbean Submarine Strike in Trump’s Expanding Anti-Drug Campaign

The US military detained survivors from a suspected drug-smuggling submarine it struck in the Caribbean on Thursday — the first attack in President Donald Trump’s monthlong campaign to leave survivors, officials said.

Trump confirmed the strike while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the vessel a “drug-carrying submarine.”

The attack, the sixth in the region since early September, raised the total death toll to at least 28. Survivors are being held aboard a US Navy ship, though their legal status remains unclear.

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