What can governments do when countries circumvent or flout the rules to export oil?

An oil tanker that’s part of a US-military fuel procurement program was hailed by small armed ships in the Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s coast on Tuesday, amid heightened tensions between the two ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian ...

The US military "tracked and hunted" an oil tanker that operated in "defiance" of the US president's blockade of sanctioned ...

A U.S.-flagged tanker heading for Bahrain was approached and threatened by Iranian gunboats in the Strait of Hormuz, a British maritime security firm says.

November 29, 2025: Earlier this month, about 600 kilometers east of the Somali capital Mogadishu, a chemical tanker was threatened by Somali pirates. In the predawn murk, four Somali gunmen on a speed ...

The Coast Guard hasn’t boarded the Venezuela-linked oil tanker it’s been chasing for days because it doesn’t have enough ships or boarding teams nearby, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The US has been ...

Evana, an oil tanker, is docked in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, Dec. 21, 2025. The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker, the Olina, in the Caribbean Sea. (Matias Delacroix/AP) ...

The oceans are increasingly populated by a dangerous armada. It numbers around 1,300 vessels. They are not warships. They are not state of the art. They are unarmed, old, often decrepit. They fly ...

By Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI, Feb 16 (Reuters) - 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 ...

An oil tanker that's part of a US-military fuel procurement program was hailed by small armed ships in the Strait of Hormuz off Iran's coast on Tuesday. Image by SzymonBartosz via iStock (Update) ...