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 United States on Thursday issued new sanctions targeting Venezuela, imposing curbs on three nephews of President Nicolas ...

Seizures of more tankers could put a stranglehold on Venezuela’s economy, which is exceptionally dependent on oil to keep the ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem provided the Trump administration's most thorough explanation so far of why it took ...

The U.S. seized a 20-year-old oil tanker called The Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, three sources familiar ...

The recent seizure of an oil tanker known as Skipper by the U.S. off the coast of Venezuela marks a dramatic escalation of ...

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and half a dozen shipping vessels ...

Venezuela has condemned the Trump administration’s Wednesday seizure of an oil tanker, calling it an “act of piracy.” ...

The U.S. Coast Guard, with the help of the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations, executed a seizure warrant Wednesday for ...

The Trump administration says the tanker was involved in “illicit oil shipping”, but Venezuela accuses the US of “theft” and ...