Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian media said overnight Friday to Saturday, adding that 18 crew members from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were on board. “An oil tanker ...

James LaPorta is a national security coordinating producer in CBS News' Washington bureau. He is a former U.S. Marine infantryman and veteran of the Afghanistan war.

On December 10, President Trump announced that U.S. forces seized Skipper, a sanctioned oil tanker transporting Venezuelan oil. The following questions examine the implications of this seizure for ...

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro says escalating pressure from the US comes down to one thing: Washington wants to grab the South American nation's vast oil reserves. This week the American military ...

Gold hit a seven-week high of $4,372/oz due to a soft dollar and rising safe-haven demand. Silver soared to a new record high of $64.953/oz, reflecting a 120% increase since the start of the year.

Venezuela has accused the U.S. of engaging in an “international act of piracy” after one of its oil tankers was seized by the U.S. military. “Under these circumstances, the true reasons for the ...

Cuba’s top diplomat on Wednesday called the U.S. Coast Guard’s recent seizure of an oil tanker an “aggressive escalation” amid growing tensions between the Trump administration and Venezuela. “We ...

Dozens of tankers are transporting American-sanctioned oil off the coast of Venezuela, raising the possibility of further seizures after the U.S. captured an oil tanker in the Caribbean on Wednesday.

Mark Chadwick has previously received funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela – a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever ...

Venezuela on Wednesday condemned the U.S. seizure of a sanctioned oil tanker off its coast, calling it an "act of international piracy." "The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela strongly denounces and ...

Mexico City, Mexico, December 11, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela accused the United States of committing “international piracy” after US authorities seized an oil tanker in the Caribbean, ...

The tanker was headed eastward and had recently carried Iranian oil. The seizure is an escalation in President Trump’s military pressure campaign against Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. By Edward ...