{"id":72640,"date":"2026-02-15T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/us-forces-board-second-venezuela-linked-oil-tanker-in-indian-ocean\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:00:00","slug":"us-forces-board-second-venezuela-linked-oil-tanker-in-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/us-forces-board-second-venezuela-linked-oil-tanker-in-indian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"US forces board second Venezuela\u2011linked oil tanker in Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eadd4130c9b4b9230cd17d3702782a3c701f0665\/1032_0_2543_2036\/master\/2543.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=ad34d7958d54cf6350b97ef4349a1df3\" alt=\"US forces board second Venezuela\u2011linked oil tanker in Indian Ocean\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">US forces board second Venezuela\u2011linked oil tanker in Indian Ocean<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Pentagon tracked sanctioned Veronica III from Caribbean Sea after it left Venezuela on day Maduro was capturedUS military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said on Sunday.Venezuela had faced US sanctions on its oil for several years, relying on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. President Donald Trump ordered a quarantine of sanctioned tankers in December to pressure then president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro before Maduro was apprehended in January during an American military operation. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/15\/us-forces-board-second-venezuelalinked-oil-tanker-in-indian-ocean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts US forces board second Venezuela\u2011linked oil tanker in Indian Ocean Pentagon tracked sanctioned Veronica III from Caribbean Sea after it left Venezuela on day Maduro was capturedUS military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}