Further ship seizures could be aimed at tightening the financial screws on Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

The United States plans to seize more tankers carrying Venezuelan crude, Reuters reported today, citing unnamed sources who said there was a...

Vessels targeted by the US are supertankers that recently loaded crude oil in Venezuela.

The Treasury has targeted the shipping sector and blacklisted President Nicolas Maduro’s nephews...

Trump said that “other things are happening” in addition to the U.S. military’s seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker

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

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the seizure of an oil tanker near Venezuela, saying the U.S. intends to seize the oil...

The new sanctions on Franqui Flores, Carlos Flores and Efrain Campo come a day after Trump announced that the U.S. had seized an oil tanker...

The seizure was the first interdiction of an oil cargo or tanker from Venezuela and comes as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes for Venezuel...

The White House plans to move the tanker to a US port and seize the oil on board, a move Caracas has labelled as an act of "international pi...

The United States announced fresh sanctions against Venezuela, targeting shipping companies and vessels linked to the South American country...

On this week's episode of Sources & Methods, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to correspondents Greg Myre and Eleanor Beardsley about the futur...

After more than a year in hiding, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado surfaces in Oslo, as the U.S. seizes an oil tanker near...

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

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