In public, the White House says it is confronting Venezuela to curb drug trafficking. Behind the scenes, gaining access to ...

Secret fleet of oil tankers uses fake flags, shell companies and disabled tracking to smuggle crude from Russia, Iran and ...

Trump administration seizes Venezuela oil tanker, leaving Maduro regime with few retaliation options that wouldn't harm its ...

Tensions between the United States and Venezuela escalated further this week after President Trump announced that the U.S.

The tanker was headed eastward and had recently carried Iranian oil. The seizure is an escalation in President Trump’s ...

The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast after a monthslong buildup of military forces in the region.

The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his ...

The U.S. has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said, a move that sent oil ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov demanded that the administration of President Donald Trump provide justification for ...

Using U.S. forces to take control of a merchant ship is unusual and marks the Trump administration's latest push to increase ...

U.S. officials say the Trump administration seized an oil tanker off Venezuela, with the Coast Guard leading the operation.

Iran condemned the U.S. seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, calling it “piracy” and a violation of international law.