PALM BEACH, United States: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was in a New York jail Saturday, hours after American special forces seized and flew him out of his country — which Donald Trump said would come under effective US control. The US president’s announcement followed a lightning pre-dawn attack in which commandos grabbed Maduro and his wife while air strikes pounded sites in and around Caracas.

The United States mounted a 'large-scale strike' in Venezuela early Saturday and said President Nicolás Maduro had been captured and flown out of the...

Maduro and his wife were captured and removed from the country following the operation, Trump said in a statement on Truth Social.