The strikes, authorised by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, have raised fresh legality questions - but the White House says laws have been followed.

Norway and Sweden have become the latest countries to warn against travel to Venezuela. The Nordic countries have joined a growing list of nations advising their citizens against going to the South American country due to crime, instability, and shortages.

Trump on Tuesday teased an imminent land strike against Venezuela and suggested he might attack other countries as well.

A group of U.S. senators who have tried repeatedly to rein in President Donald Trump's aggression against Venezuela said on Tuesday they would file a new resolution to force a congressional vote on the issue if the administration carries out a strike within the country.

WASHINGTON - Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi is among congressional Republicans who expressed concern about U.S. military actions off Venezuela's coast and joined Democrats in pledging to look into multiple strikes on one boat, although there was no word on Monday of any briefings or hearings.

The looming threat of U.S. military intervention in Venezuela is once again exposing the rift between the Republican Party’s foreign policy hawks and its anti-interventionist wing. But the fault lines are unfamiliar — a vivid illustration of the fluid nature of foreign policy alliances inside the Trump coalition.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has approved a migrant repatriation flight from the United States, Venezuelan authorities said on Tuesday, days after Caracas said comments by U.S. President Donald Trump had effectively halted the program.

The White House has defended the strike on boats near Venezuela. "I want those boats taken out," Trump said in Tuesday's meeting.

Long-range radar system will track drug boats in Caribbean, Tobago officials say, but it could also be used against Venezuela