On April 8, 2009, the US-flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama was hijacked while it was passing along the coast of Somalia. The ...

Somali pirates with links to Al Qaeda have released ... The MV Abdullah was carrying some 55,000 tonnes of coal when it was captured on March 12. The ship had sailed from Maputo in Mozambique ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN)-- One of the pirates who held a Saudi oil supertanker off Somalia before releasing ... oil worth about $100 million when it was captured. Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya ...

Spanish media have reported that various other European countries have sent Somali pirate suspects -- which their respective armed forces captured -- to Kenya to face judicial proceedings ...

Operation Atalanta has recently identified several pirate camps on the Somali coast where captured ships are held during ransom negotiations. India has mobilized the most to curb piracy ...

A group of 28 suspected Somali pirates captured in the Indian Ocean on Sunday have been handed over to police in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay). They were apprehended aboard a Thai fishing ...

In late October, an ISIS-linked group captured a port town on the north coast of Somalia. It's not clear how these groups will interact with the pirates, but there are plenty of reasons to worry.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) - Suspected Somali pirates have hijacked a Yemeni-flagged fishing boat off the semi-autonomous Puntland region in northeast Somalia, the European Union's anti-piracy ...

Russia and Iran like to tout themselves as America's largest and most determined enemies, but everyone in the international community knows few geopolitical beefs run deeper than the United States ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected Somali pirates have hijacked another Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa, the third such attack in recent weeks, authorities said Monday.

When the fishing boat he was working on was captured by Somali pirates the whole crew was taken to Somalia. Despite living in desperate conditions and eating snakes and scorpions to survive ...