India, Jan. 4 -- President Donald Trump said the United States carried out overnight strikes on Venezuela on Saturday and captured the country's long-serving president, Nicolas Maduro.

Trump later shared an image he said showed Maduro blindfolded aboard the USS Iwo Jima. According to US officials, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown to New York state late Saturday, landing at Stewart Air National Guard Base before being transported by helicopter to Manhattan's Drug Enforcement Administration offices and later to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center.

Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Trump said the United States would assume temporary control of Venezuela "until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious ...