During a closed briefing with top congressional leaders on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio attempted to downplay increasingly belligerent statements from President Trump and the White House regarding Greenland, telling lawmakers that recent administration threats against Greenland didn’t signal an imminent invasion and that the goal is to buy the island from Denmark, people familiar with the discussions told the Wall Street Journal.

Rubio’s comments appear to be in stark contrasts to statements made recently by other senior officials in the Trump Administration, with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller advocating for military force to take the island, telling CNN during an interview last night that, “obviously, Greenland should be part of the United States.” He added, “Nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland.”

The Trump Administration has warned Venezuela’s Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello to “cooperate or face potential targeting,” sources have told Reuters.

President Donald J. Trump announces that the Interim Government in Venezuela has agreed to turn over 30-50 million barrels of “High Quality, Sanctioned Oil” to the United States, which will be sold at market price and the profits controlled by him, as President, to “benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!” President Trump states that he has tasked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to immediately execute the plan, with the oil being brought by tankers back to the United States.

Constant surveillance continues on the Russian-flagged Iranian-linked sanctioned crude oil tanker, Marinera, in the Northern Atlantic, with a U.S. Navy P-8A “Poseidon” Maritime Patrol and Surveillance Aircraft returning to RAF Mildenhall after a quick look at the ship to the south of Iceland.

Russia has deployed a submarine and other naval assets to the Northern Atlantic in order to escort the formally Guyana-flagged Iranian-linked sanctioned crude oil tanker, Bella 1 - now the Russian-flagged, Marinera - to its apparent intended destination in Northern Russia, according to a U.S. official who spoke to the Wall Street Journal.

Seven U.S. Servicemembers were injured during Saturday’s military operation in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, with five having since returned to active service and two still recovering, a defense official tells CBS News.

Today, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), the co-chairs of the Senate NATO Observer Group, published a bi-partisan statement condemning recent rhetoric by the Trump Administration regarding Greenland, stating, “When Denmark and Greenland make it clear that Greenland is not for sale, the United States must honor its treaty obligations and respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark.” Additionally adding, “With an active war in Ukraine and rising threats from Russia and China in the Arctic and Indo-Pacific, we cannot afford distractions or divisions within NATO.”

The Trump Administration is placing pressure on the Interim Government in Venezuela to sever any further ties with China, Russia, Cuba and Iran, while exclusively partnering with the United States on the export of crude oil, sources have told ABC News.

The United States assesses that about 75 people were killed during Operation Absolute Resolve, Saturday’s military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, including dozens of fatalities that resulted from a gun battle between U.S. Special Forces and Maduro’s security team - made up of mostly Cubans - at his compound in Caracas, officials familiar with the matter tell the Washington Post.

During today’s summit in Paris, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, alongside France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Keir Starmer, signed a declaration of intent agreeing on the deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force to Ukraine once a ceasefire is achieved, which will consist of troops from both France and the United Kingdom.

According to sources familiar with Tuesday's negotiations and summit featuring the “Coalition of the Willing” in Paris, participants, including European leaders, observed a “significant shift” in the United States' stance toward both Russia and Ukraine.

Representing the Trump Administration, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner took a notably more assertive position against Russia during the talks with European Allies. For the first time, expressing strong and solid support for deploying a multinational peacekeeping force and proposing robust security guarantees - both for the peacekeeping contingent and for Ukraine. These guarantees, similar to those under NATO’s Article 5, would commit the United States to come to Ukraine's defense in the event of any future attack by Russia.

According to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, Vice President of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) and the Leader of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), has fled to an unknown location and disappeared, after he was meant to board a plane today earlier for talks in Riyadh.

The Chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), Rashad al-Alimi has issued a decree removing Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, Leader of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), from his position as Vice Chair of the PLC, accusing him of “High Treason” and referring him to the Prosecutor General.

The Netherlands has announced it is scaling back its participation in U.S-led counter-drug operations in the Caribbean Sea, as a reaction to the rising death toll from American military attacks on vessels suspected of being used to smuggle narcotics from Latin America, according to reporting Tuesday by Politico.

Speaking on Monday in Aruba, one of several Dutch island in the Caribbean and off the coast of Venezuela, Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said that the Dutch Navy would continue drug interdiction within its own territorial waters, but would not use its naval “station ship” for interdictions linked to the United States’ Operation Southern Spear.

“We have worked together with the Americans on counter-narcotics for many years, but in a different way,” Brekelmans said. “When we see drug smuggling, we try to arrest and prosecute those responsible. Not by shooting ships.” Brekelmans made it clear that the Netherlands would not provide facilities, helicopters or other support if requested by Washington for Southern Spear.

The Taiwanese Coast Guard, Army, Navy, and Air Force are continuing their search for an F-16AM Block 20 from Hualien Air Base, along with its pilot, Capt. Hsin Po-yi, who crashed Tuesday evening off the coast of Eastern Taiwan, somewhere to the east of the Fengbin Township in Hualien County.

Search-and-rescue operations have been ongoing now for nearly 24 hours, with rough seas and weather making the search arduous for the Coast Guard. To make the situation more difficult, it is not known if Captain Hsin was able to eject from his F-16 prior to the crash, though the current assumption is that he was able to successfully eject and is adrift at sea, according to the Taiwanese Air Force.