MOGADISHU, Somalia – A Liberian-flagged Greek-owned ship and its crew of 21 Filipinos who were held hostage by pirates for eight months have been released following the payment of a $2.3 million ...

NAIROBI– Somali pirates have seized a German-owned ship with its 11 Romanian crew members in the Gulf of Aden, a US Navy spokesman said Wednesday. Somali pirates have hijacked a German-owned ...

Mogadishu - Somali pirates said on Sunday they had hijacked a Pakistani-owned ship even as the Seychelles announced it had nabbed three suspects in the intensifying international hunt for high ...

Pirates are holding a Ukrainian-operated ship carrying 33 Russian-built tanks off the coast of Somalia. They're demanding a ransom of $20 million for the release of the ship and crew members.

An oil tanker has been hijacked by suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia, reports say, the first such hijacking in the region in five years. The ship sent a distress signal on Monday evening ...

Somali pirates have caused chaos in important global ... Houthi-claimed missile attack on Greek-operated, Barbados-flagged ship kills three sailors off the coast of Yemen.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia’s notorious pirates have staged perhaps their most brazen attack yet, seizing a Ukrainian ship full of arms, including dozens of battle tanks, and Russian and American ...

Somali pirates last September captured a Ukrainian cargo ship, the MV Faina, loaded to the gunnels with heavy weaponry, including 33 Russian-designed T-72 battle tanks. Since then, American and ...

"We hijacked the ship in order to send a message to the businessmen to convince their government to release our colleagues." Somali pirates typically hijack merchant vessels to earn hefty ransoms ...

BOSASSO, Somalia March 16 (Reuters) - Somali pirates released a hijacked oil tanker and its eight Sri Lankan crew on Thursday, a Somali security official and the pirates said, bringing the first ...