The number of hostages killed or injured by Somali pirates increased significantly last year, according to a report by maritime officials. The International Maritime Bureau says 35 people who were ...

March 12 (UPI) --Somali pirates hijacked a Bangladeshi cargo ship on Tuesday and took more than 20 of the crew hostage. The cargo ship "MV" Abdullah was hijacked while on its way to Al Hamriyah ...

(FOX 9) - A Somali pirate from Minnesota has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in holding an American journalist hostage for nearly three years. In a press release on Tuesday ...

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

Korean ships sailing in international waters will have to build a safe place designed to protect their crew members from ...

Taiwanese boat engineer, Shen Jui-chang was freed last month after spending nearly five years as a hostage. When the fishing boat he was working on was captured by Somali pirates the whole crew ...

He made the announcement in Adado, a town in central Somalia where pirate hostages have often been held. Successful pirate attacks off the Somali coast fell sharply last year. Analysts say this is ...

Foreign ships arrived — as did Somali pirates who targeted them ... “The [Chinese] trawler being held hostage is not new to the area and has been operating in our waters for a while ...

That year alone, Somali pirates carried out 212 attacks ... Maritime Police Force - including securing the release of hostages - indicate that these efforts are paying off. These anti-piracy ...

On March 15, 2024, an Indian Navy long-range maritime patrol intercepted the Ruen about 260 nautical miles east of Somalia.

In the early days of 2012, German-American journalist Michael Scott Moore was kidnapped by pirates in Somalia — the very pirates he was there to write about. In “The Desert and the Sea ...