The boatswain’s mate, who grew up in Egypt, was awarded for his gutsy role in responding to a pirate attack on a commercial ...

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

Just this month, Somali pirates captured two Yemeni fishing boats and 22 Yemeni fishermen in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen's official news agency SABA reported. A day earlier, the German cruise liner MS ...

(CNN)-- Somali pirates captured two Yemeni fishing boats and 22 Yemeni fishermen Wednesday in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen's official news agency SABA said. SABA, citing sources in Yemen's Coast Guard ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Yemeni-flagged fishing dhow Al-Hidaya has been released by Somali pirates after being held for a week. The European Union Naval Force’s Operation Atalanta said the vessel was hijacked on 16 March ...

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