Later that day, armed pirates forcefully boarded the ship off the coast of Africa and took the crew hostage. For the ...

Later that day, armed pirates forcefully boarded the ship off the coast of Africa and took the crew hostage. For the ...

At the start of 2025 the UN authorized a new peacekeeping force of 11,900 troops. In February the U.S. carried out airstrikes against Islamic terrorists in Puntland, which is in northern Somalia.

(CNN)-- The crew members of a North Korean freighter regained control of their ship from pirates who hijacked the vessel off Somalia, but not without a deadly fight, the U.S. Navy reported Tuesday.

The captain and crew of the car carrier held for more than a year by Houthi rebels have been nominated for shipping’s top ...

The ship is flying under a Panamanian flag. Pirates have attacked more than 100 ships off the Somali coast over the last year, reaping an estimated $1 million in ransom for each successful ...

Somali pirates hijacked a U.S. cargo ship—what followed was a daring five-day hostage crisis that ended with three perfect ...

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Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled this year, threatening to make international trade more expensive and offering terrorists a new source of income, says a report released Wednesday ...

On January 12, 2012, Somali pirates made a fatal mistake: they attacked the SPS Patiño, a heavily armed Spanish warship. What followed was one of the most brutal and embarrassing failures in ...

The Gulf of Guinea, long regarded as the international piracy hotspot, was overtaken in the first quarter of the year by the ...

A Greek-controlled vessel immobilised in the Indian Ocean after an engine room fire last month has been towed to safety.