The U.S. Justice Department accused Maduro and close allies of running a narco-trafficking network and offered a reward of up to $50 million for information leading to his arrest. Maduro rejected the allegations, accusing the U.S. of attempting to seize Venezuela’s oil wealth.

The US has captured the Venezuelan president, but whether this will lead to wholesale regime change remains unclear.

The US has captured Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro after a large scale strike on the South American country, US President Donald Trump has said. Trump said Venezuela's left-wing president and his wife were flown out of the country in a military operation in conjunction with US law enforcement.

A temporary FAA airspace restriction over Puerto Rico, linked to military activity in Venezuela, has caused major flight cancellations and disrupted Caribbean cruise travel.

The US military conducted lethal strikes against two boats in the eastern Pacific this week, killing all people on board each vessel, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The two strikes on vessels in the Pacific — the eighth and ninth known ...

There were numerous near-simultaneous reports of explosions in several places in Caracas, including military installations. La Carlota, a military airfield in the centre of the city, and the main military base of Fuerte Tiuna were described by eyewitnesses as having been affected, with video circulating of apparent explosions at both.

Donald Trump Jr told a conference that the US president “may walk away” from the Ukraine war, arguing there was “no reason” for Kyiv to pursue peace while US money kept flowing. He claimed Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled, leaving “what ...

The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. That September strike was the first in ...

The US is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Saturday on Fox News, adding: “We’ll be involved in it very much.” “We can’t take a chance in letting somebody else run and just take over what he left, or left off,” Mr Trump said in the interview with Fox News hours after the capture.

Despite holding the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela’s oil industry has been hollowed out by economic collapse under President Nicolás Maduro.