CNN

Word of the Week: What makes the Trump administration’s Operation Epic Fury so ‘epic’?

On February 28, about an hour after President Donald Trump announced that the US had launched attacks against Iran, the Department of Defense — which now calls itself the “Department of War” — dubbed ...
The New York Times

Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro

The tactically precise operation successfully extracted Mr. Maduro with no loss of American life, a result heralded by President Trump amid larger questions about the legality and rationale for the ...
csis.org

The Geopolitics of Maduro’s Capture: China’s Future in Latin America Following Operation Absolute Resolve

When the Trump administration published its National Security Strategy (NSS) in December 2025, it ignited a debate about the extent to which the document would guide U.S. strategy. While the NSS is ...
Politifact

Was Trump required to notify Congress in advance about Venezuela operation?

For U.S. military operations such as the one that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, there is a longstanding practice, supported by federal law, of informing a bipartisan group of eight top ...
CNN

Mexico’s most-wanted drug leader killed in military operation as clashes erupt and US tourists told to shelter in place

Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the powerful and long-pursued head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and one of the world’s most-wanted traffickers, died following a Mexican military ...