This image from video posted on Attorney General Pam Bondi’s X account, and partially redacted by the source, shows an oil tanker being seized by U.S. forces off the coast of Venezuela, Dec. 10, 2025.

A 1,000-strong "dark fleet" of rogue oil tankers skirting sanctions has emerged as a new target for the U.S. and Ukraine, a senior maritime intelligence analyst claims. Michelle Wiese Bockmann warned ...

Mojtaba Ghahramani, a provincial chief of the justice department, said the oil tanker was carrying 25,000 barrels of smuggled ...

FILE: Tankers at the refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Dec. 30, 2021. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, that the United States would impose a blockade on all "sanctioned ...

President Trump said Tuesday he would designate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime a foreign terrorist organization and direct the blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and exiting ...

Seizures of more tankers could put a stranglehold on Venezuela’s economy, which is exceptionally dependent on oil to keep the government running and pay for basic necessities. Seizures of more tankers ...

The Venezuelan oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week is now headed to Houston, Reuters reports, citing two sources. Donald Trump and his administration have said they plan to keep the oil from the ...