Pirates can approach cargo ships carrying rifles and boarding ladders, yet the crews they attack often fight back with ...

When armed fighters boarded the Galaxy Leader from a helicopter, it exposed a frightening weakness in modern merchant ...

Turkish commandos working from a frigate off the coast of Somalia retook the cargo ship Lutuf, which had been seized nearly ...

According to Reuters, the Sibu 1, an oil tanker flying the Eritrean flag, was attacked and boarded by six Somali pirates Thursday off the coast of Yemen. The pirates seized control of the ship and had ...

Three British guards jumped overboard and were rescued from the water after battling in vain to prevent pirates hijacking a chemical tanker off the coast of Somalia. The Liberian-flagged Biscaglia ...

US-Israel war against Iran and political instability in Somalia have led to pirates targeting cargo ships off Horn of Africa ...

Somali authorities say 14 pirates were killed in the 10-day operation to free a Cameroon-flagged cargo vessel.

The Pirates of the Caribbean perished by the early 18th Century; the pirates of Somalia are surging in 2026. The catalyst is the escalating conflict in the Middle East, which is forcing commercial ...

A court sketch made on November 16, 2011 at Paris courthouse during their trial, shows three of six alleged Somali pirates accused of taking a French couple hostage on their yacht off the coast of ...