Photo: Alamy U.S. military forces are tracking an oil tanker linked to Iran and Venezuela after the vessel refused orders to stop and allow boarding, according to U.S. officials. The tanker, Bella 1, ...

The Bella 1, an oil tanker far larger than any Coast Guard ship, has been fleeing the U.S. blockade of sanctioned vessels ...

The U.S. is preparing for a high-risk boarding of a massive oil tanker accused of evading sanctions tied to Venezuela. The post Tanker defies Coast Guard as US escalates Venezuela oil blockade ...

Crude oil prices are set for the sharpest weekly gain in three months, rising over $2 per barrel due to intensifying U.S. pressure on Venezuela and a reported U.S. military strike in Nigeria.

Trump’s invocation of war and his revival of a medal from a long-buried era of American military intervention in Mexico leave ...

Trump has ordered a ‘total and complete blockade’ of all U.S.‑sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers entering or leaving the country, ...

While President Donald Trump has been publicly coy about his precise aims regarding Venezuela, he has privately pressured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to flee the nation ...

The US has been pursuing the tanker, identified as the Bella 1, since Sunday after spotting it off Venezuela’s coast.

A sanctioned oil tanker pursued by US forces turned away from Venezuela and retreated out into the Atlantic Ocean, according ...

The Coast Guard is waiting for elite forces as it pursues a Venezuelan tanker, Reuters has learned, in a dramatic standoff at sea.

The days-long pursuit highlights the mismatch between the Trump administration's desire to seize sanctioned oil tankers near ...