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

The U.S. government seized the ship off Venezuela this week for allegedly transporting oil to sanctioned Iran.

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

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

The Trump administration plans to hold the oil tanker it seized in waters near Venezuela at an American port in Texas but ...

Trump is continuing to ratchet up pressure on Venezuela, after US military forces seized an oil tanker off the country's ...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Friday promised political change after slipping out of the country in ...

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

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. government carried out its seizure of the M/T Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on ...

Venezuela’s foreign affairs minister denounced the seizure, calling it a “blatant theft” and “an act of international piracy.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has linked the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela to the Trump ...