Since September, the Trump administration is known to have carried out strikes on at least 21 boats in international waters that killed 83 people.

President Donald Trump will hold a meeting at the White House on Monday evening about next steps on Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, as the administration intensifies its pressure campaign on the country and questions mount about whether the military is exceeding its lawful authority.

U.S. President Donald Trumpheld talks on Monday with top advisers to discuss the pressure campaign on Venezuela, among other topics, a senior U.S. official said.

President Trump scheduled a meeting with top generals and Cabinet officials on the matter at the White House on Monday evening, debating target options now available with the deployment of more than a dozen warships to the Caribbean Sea.

Trump said Saturday on Truth Social that airlines and pilots should consider Venezuela's airspace "CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY."

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered "closed in its entirety."

Venezuela’s government said it “forcefully rejects” Trump’s claim about closing the airspace and that it was a “colonial threat” intended to undermine the country’s “territorial integrity, aeronautical security and full sovereignty.”

Trump administration announces stricter immigration limits after an Afghan national allegedly shot National Guard members near White House, leaving one dead and one in critical condition.