United States forces boarded and seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday following a weeks-long chase on the high seas which has escalated tensions with Moscow and piled further pressure on its ally Venezuela.

The U.S. seized the Russian-flagged Marinera oil tanker -- formerly known as the Bella-1 -- which has been linked to Venezuela and was transiting the North Atlantic, according to three sources familiar with the operation. And it also seized another tanker, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

(Handout/US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's X account/AFP) The United States "apprehended" an oil tanker off Venezuela on Saturday, a move Caracas deemed a "theft and kidnapping," in the latest salvo of a pressure campaign by Washington, the ...

“I have absolutely no idea why the president is seizing an oil tanker,” Sen. Chris Coons, D-Conn., told NewsNation. “I’m gravely concerned that he is sleepwalking us into a war with Venezuela.” Coons said he had not been briefed on the ...

The United States is pursuing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to multiple reports, just a day after the Coast Guard seized a different tanker in the same waters amid a rapid U.S. military buildup in the region. If seized, it would mark ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. — A tank battery explosion in North Dakota’s oil patch shut down a highway for several hours, according to state troopers.

The United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said, escalating US pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s regime. “As you probably know we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela ...

A deadly crash involving a tanker explosion shut down both directions of Interstate 69 Wednesday morning near Noblesville.