India, Jan. 3 -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was reportedly taken into custody early Saturday by members of the Delta Force, the US military's elite special mission unit, according to American news outlet CBS. This report came after US President Donald Trump posted on social media about the "capture" of the Communist leader of the South American nation, though details about which unit carried out the operation were not officially revealed.

Delta Force, an elite unit of the US Army, previously carried out the 2019 operation that resulted in the death of former Islamic State terror group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

In his Truth Social post early Saturday local time, US President Donald Trump claimed that President Nicolas Maduro ...