Trump has moved significant U.S. military assets, including eight warships, about 10,000 troops, a nuclear-power submarine and fighter jets, to the southern Caribbean, close to Venezuela. Earlier this week, the president confirmed he authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to carry out covert operations in Venezuela.

President Trump’s deployment around Venezuela includes training with an Army unit capable of inserting some of the military’s most elite and deadly special operations forces. The U.S.

Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N. is condemning a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling it “a new set of extrajudicial executions.”

President Trump is ramping up military pressure on Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro, raising the prospect of strikes inside the country, which would mark a major escalation from

Following repeated U.S attacks on boats off the coast of Venezuela, Senator Tim Kaine has partnered with fellow Democrat Senator Adam Schiff and Republican Senator Rand Paul to force a vote to prevent war on Venezuela without approval from Congress.

Adm. Alvin Holsey, a Navy pilot who led U.S. Southern Command in the early stages of the burgeoning targets against the region's drug cartels directed at Venezuela, "plans to retire at year's end," according to an X post by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Three aircraft—call signs BUNNY01, BUNNY02, and BUNNY03—were observed on extended flight patterns from Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base in a striking show of force aimed at Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

A US military attack on a ship allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela left two survivors who have reportedly been captured by US forces and are being held aboard a Navy ship. The attack, which took place on Thursday, is at least the sixth US strike on Venezuelan ships in recent weeks. It was the first time that survivors have been reported.