Reports that U.S. forces boarded and seized a large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast on 10 December 2025 have already prompted accusations of “piracy”, unlawful coercion, and a renewed U.S.

If sanctions were going to have an effect on global reserve holdings, we presumably would have seen it by now. In the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has totally reoriented the U.S. approach to ...

The latest attacks across the Mideast have been met with Tehran's reflex actions. Americans have been abducted. The reported abduction of a U.S. freelance journalist, identified as Shelly Kittleson, ...