War Department officials said Monday that U.S. military forces seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker that Indo-Pacific Command tracked down from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean. “The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean,

India has seized three U.S.-sanctioned oil tankers linked to Iran ​this month and stepped up surveillance in its maritime ⁠zone to curb illicit trade, a source said on Monday (February 16, 2026).