In September, WSJ explained how the heightened rhetoric and military moves by the Trump administration and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro could escalate. Photo: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images; Francis ...

Captain Oscar John Lohr stands tense by the small radio station aboard his merchant ship, ears straining for the faintest crackle. He’s waiting for some sign of hope, some message to break the silence ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth addresses senior military officers at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, on September 30, 2025. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth addresses senior military ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday announced that the U.S. military conducted a strike on a narcotrafficking vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing four men aboard. This strike occurred one ...

The Trump administration has said that it is attacking boats and killing their occupants because they are smuggling drugs from Venezuela to the United States. By Julie Turkewitz and Robert Jimison ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he ordered a fourth strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela, according to a social media post. In his post, Hegseth said that ...

In our news wrap Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says U.S. forces destroyed a boat near Venezuela that they say was trafficking narcotics, UK investigators say one of the two men killed in the ...

The Trump administration has determined the U.S. is in a "non-international armed conflict" with drug cartels it has designated as terrorist organizations, it said in a notification to Congress viewed ...

Washington — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked an effort aimed at preventing continued U.S. strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats off the coast of Venezuela. Democrats forced a vote on the ...

NORFOLK, Va. — U.S. forces hit another vessel allegedly carrying illegal drugs off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, adding that the U.S. would ...

White House called the allegation "baseless." The last boat struck by the U.S. military in the Caribbean Sea was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on ...