In a statement, a European naval force known as EUNAVFOR Atalanta said the pirates targeted the ship Sunday off the town of Eyl in Somalia. It identified the vessel as a Yemeni-flagged dhow ...

Somali pirates with links to Al Qaeda have released the Bangladesh-flagged cargo ship MV Abdullah and its 23 crew members after receiving a ransom payment of $5 million, locals and officials in ...

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

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 ...

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As the ship neared the tanker, El Haroun was given a megaphone. He saw the Somali pirates in a small wooden boat and delivered the commands in Arabic. “You’re hearing the U.S. Navy,” he said.

A pirate attack was on a Bangladesh-flagged ship travelling off the coast of Somalia MADRID, March 13. /TASS/. EU’s Operation Atalanta has confirmed a pirate attack on a Bangladesh-flagged ship ...

smashing into boarding ships and also any pirates underneath. These hazards scared off Somali pirates who tried to board the Discovery in 2010, despite them being armed with AK-47s. In fact ...

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.