The Guyana Defence Force reported that three separate incidents took place within a 24-hour span near the contested border, though it said no soldiers were injured. It comes amid an increasingly volatile dispute over the Essequibo region — a sparsely populated, resource-rich area that comprises about two-thirds of Guyana’s territory. 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio blacklisted Cuba on Tuesday as a country that did not fully cooperate with U.S. counterterrorism efforts in 2024 and blasted the government in Havana for its refusal to discuss the return of people residing on the island who are charged in the U.S. for various crimes.

U.S. Transportation Command has conducted 46 flights on military aircraft at a cost of $21 million to support migrant deportation operations at Guantanamo Bay between January and April.

The military zone in New Mexico was established recently to give troops the jurisdiction to apprehend migrants crossing unlawfully into the United States from Mexico. But military operations at the southern border have largely remained the same.

Three Marines deployed to the U.S. border with Mexico were following a Border Patrol vehicle with its lights on when the driver swerved to avoid a head-on collision and crashed into a ditch — killing both passengers, according to a local police report.

First Lt. Marciano Parisano, an Army Black Hawk pilot, died in Honduras while off duty, service officials said.

Troops patrolling a new military zone at the U.S. border with Mexico have yet to detain anyone, even as federal charges move forward against more than two dozen migrants for illegally entering the strip of land in New Mexico.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López accused the United States of conspiring to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro to gain control over the resource-rich Essequibo region, a territory long disputed between Venezuela and Guyana.

A 60-foot-wide zone of New Mexico land that runs along the U.S. border with Mexico has been deemed part of Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to allow troops to begin arresting people for trespassing on military territory — an escalation of the authority given active-duty service members deployed to the region to deter illegal activity.

The two Marines killed this week in a vehicle crash near the U.S.-Mexico border have been identified as Lance Cpl. Albert A. Aguilera and Lance Cpl. Marcelino M. Gamino, combat engineers assigned to the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif.