A maritime piracy attack occurred on the night of Jan. 31 in Gabonese waters, highlighting ongoing security concerns in the ...

Attacks by Somali pirates have risen more in the past three months than at any other time during the past six years, ...

Mogadishu (Commentary ) — One month ago, Mogadishu welcomed Mohamed Abdi (aka Afweyne), a former pirate kingpin. He served ...

Foreign ships arrived — as did Somali pirates who targeted them. By the early 2010s, Somali piracy had declined. A main reason for this was the entry of international navies sent into Somali ...

January 23, 2025: The Somali pirates are back in action. It’s been eleven years since the last outbreak of piracy in the Red Sea. Violence against commercial shipping in the Red Sea region began in ...

The ship and its crew were hijacked in late November and taken to Xaafuun district in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland, a territory in Somalia's northeast. The pirates who took the ship later ...

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 details of a daring operation in low-light conditions by Indian forces to rescue 17 crew of a merchant ship near the ...

The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the ...

The Turkish Parliament has approved a presidential motion to extend the deployment of Turkish naval forces in the Gulf of ...