Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the operation in Venezuela was known as Operation Absolute Resolve and involved more than 150 aircraft across the Western Hemisphere. Caine said it was the "culmination of months of planning and rehearsal" adding that the operation could only have been conducted by the U.S. military.

The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to New York to face court proceedings. Trump voters across the U.S. are reacting. (AP Video: Mike Householder, Obed Lamy,

U.S. intelligence suggested María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, would struggle to lead the government. But her relationship with Trump officials had been souring for months.

The United States is undergoing preparations in case President Donald Trump decides to reopen the U.S. embassy in Venezuela's capital Caracas, a senior State Department official said on Monday.

The U.S.’s stunning intervention in Venezuela puts several other countries in the region and around the world also on edge.

The transatlantic dispute has taken on a new flavor after U.S. forces conducted a daring overnight raid in the capital of Caracas over the weekend.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to clarify President Donald Trump’s remarks that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela.

Trump and his top aides said they would try to work with Venezuela's new interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, to run the country and its oil sector.