Tehran, Iran — Iran seized a foreign oil tanker as it traveled the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state media said Friday. Mojtaba Ghahramani, a provincial chief of the justice department, said the oil ...

Iran said last week it had seized another foreign tanker carrying 6 million litres of what it described as smuggled diesel in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has seized a foreign oil tanker near the Iranian ...

Recent U.S. actions against ships near Venezuela may embolden other countries to seize or detain ships, legal experts said. By Peter Eavis President Trump’s recent actions against tankers near ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posts video of the U.S. Coast Guard apprehending an oil tanker off Venezuela on Dec. 20. Photo: Kristi Noem via X The U.S.’s pursuit of oil tankers around ...

President Trump said on Monday that the U.S. government will, for now, keep the oil and two oil tankers that the U.S. Coast Guard seized off the coast of Venezuela this month. “We’re going to keep it.

The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing a sanctioned oil tanker near Venezuela as President Donald Trump intensifies his pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with a sweeping blockade ...

GALVESTON, Texas — Nearly two weeks after the U.S. seized a Venezuelan oil tanker believed to be part of a ghost fleet, the ship arrived off the shore of Galveston. The tanker is about 50 miles ...

Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has contacted seven maritime shipping ‌companies as part of an inquiry into cartel-linked fuel smuggling ‌between the United States and Mexico, asking the ...

A man watches two crude oil tankers remaining anchored on Lake Maracaibo, near Maracaibo, Zulia state, Venezuela on December 17, 2025. US President Donald Trump ordered on December 16, 2025, a "total ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a total blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, declaring the Nicolás Maduro regime a foreign terrorist organization and accusing it of using ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) are strengthening their collaboration to combat the diversion of petroleum products ...

Iranian authorities detained 18 crew members of a foreign tanker seized in the Gulf of Oman on Friday that they said was carrying 6 million litres of smuggled fuel, Iranian media reported on Saturday.