When two alleged drug traffickers survived a U.S. military strike last week in the Caribbean, they left the Trump administration with a decision to make: send them back home, or find a way to keep them detained.
The U.S. last month started a campaign of attacks in the Caribbean that the Trump administration has described as "a non-international armed conflict" against narco-terrorism.
Yet legal experts aren't surprised that the U.S. government opted against using the term "prisoners of war" to describe the two survivors of a Thursday attack by the U.S. military on a semisubmersible vessel.
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