KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Sea piracy worldwide dropped 28 percent in the first quarter of the year as attacks fell sharply in Somalia's waters th...
James Doran | Posted 05.22.2012
Johnny Depp has a lot to answer for. The "mockney" drawl, the swagger and the healthy disdain for maritime authorities he perfected as Captain Jack Sparrow lent a cachet to piracy that had eluded the profession for centuries.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.09.2012
Though many think of Johnny Depp when pirating comes up, avoiding the real-life bandits of the seas is a multi-billion dollar problem for the shipping...
Katherine Zimmerman | Posted 05.25.2011
The murder of four Americans should call attention to the increasingly dire situation in Mogadishu, which exacerbates the piracy problem.
AP | JULIA ZAPPEI | Posted 05.25.2011
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian prosecutors filed charges carrying the death penalty Friday against seven suspected Somali pirates accused of...
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no government in Somalia to speak of, and the pirates are self-governing anyway. It is dramatic, challenging, surprising and odd place for a test of America's strength in the post-Bush world.
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011
According to Yemeni sources, the government is strong-arming parliament to ram through the legislation to avoid any debate of the matter by journalists' unions, media representatives and civil society groups.
AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 05.25.2011
NAIROBI, Kenya — A German cargo ship carrying 11 crew members in the Gulf of Aden called for help as it was being attacked by Somali pirates, bu...
Abukar Arman | Posted 05.25.2011
Piracy is not only disrupting international trade, it is preventing the flow of humanitarian aid to several million Somalis and is perpetuating the very culture that kept Somalia in an abyss of anarchy.
WardHeerNews | Posted 05.25.2011
Garowe, (WDN) - The Somali pirates that have wreaked havoc on the shipping lanes of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean in recent years have been wi...
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011
A Somali teenager captured by the US navy during a confrontation with pirates is to be taken to the US to face trail, US officials have said....
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and TODD PITMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
MOMBASA, Kenya — The U.S. and its allies battled Somalia's pirates on two fronts Wednesday, with French forces seizing a bandit mother ship and ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The Gulf of Aden has emerged as the favorite place for pirates to terrorize shipping lanes. Indeed, since the famous incident in which pirates hijacke...
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2011
MOMBASA, Kenya — Defiant Somali pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at another U.S. cargo ship on Tuesday but failed t...
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 05.25.2011
NAIROBI, Kenya — For the first three months of 2009, Somalia's notorious pirates faded from the headlines as a massive international naval force...
Times Online | Rob Crilly | Posted 05.25.2011
Somali pirates have hijacked a British-owned cargo ship, after 48 hours of plunder at sea....
AP | ANITA POWELL | Posted 05.25.2011
NAIROBI, Kenya — A tourist yacht and its crew of seven has been hijacked by Somali pirates near the Seychelles islands off Africa's east coast, ...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011
Prince's resignation could be seen as a public formality in what has been a dramatic attempt to scrub all public vestiges of Blackwater.
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011
Yemen hosts thousands of African refugees fleeing unrest and poverty in their countries every year - with Somalis topping the list - despite its own e...
WELT ONLINE | Posted 05.25.2011
Somali pirates hijacked a German-owned tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas on Thursday, the first ship seized in the Gulf of Aden in nearly four w...
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A new international naval force under American command will soon begin patrols to confront escalating attacks by S...
AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — Pirates freed 20 hostages aboard a Turkish freighter commandeered off the Somali coast, as nine captives on a French boat were released ...
AP | NICHOLAS PAPHITIS | Posted 05.25.2011
ATHENS, Greece — Crewmen fired high pressure water jets Friday to fight off heavily armed Somali pirates trying to board a Greek oil tanker in t...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2011
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's president resigned Monday after a four-year term in which his Western-backed government failed to extend its powe...
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. Navy says it and British forces have seized more than 20 tons of drugs smuggled along a "hash highway" th...
AP | Posted 04.23.2012