1. Introduction: When Pirates Meet the World’s Most Powerful Navy 2. Historical Context: A History of Piracy and the US Navy 3. Modern Piracy: A Persistent Global Threat 4. US Navy Anti-Piracy ...

A rescue operation to free crew of the hijacked oil tanker MT Honour 25 turned deadly, with Somali pirates opening fire on the hostages while ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Federico Varese, a professor at Sciences Po who studies Somalia's maritime criminal gangs, about why attacks on ships off Somalia's coast are on the rise again.

Pirate attacks worldwide fell to their lowest level in over two decades last year, the International Maritime Bureau said, but more than doubled in the Philippines while African trouble spots remained ...

Southeast Asia has become the world’s hotspot for pirate attacks after an international clampdown slashed the number of hijackings off the coast of war-torn Somalia, the UN said Thursday. Last year 28 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – The seafaring association says that pirate attacks at sea have dropped 40 percent since their peak in 2011 thanks to a huge drop in attacks off Somalia. The International ...

A tanker that was under sanctions by the U.S. The latest victim of Somali pirates, who are resurgent after a spate of attacks on oil tankers under?U.S. sanctions for allegedly transporting Iranian ...

A merchant vessel transiting off Yemen’s southern coast exchanged gunfire with an armed small craft on Tuesday in an incident that appears more consistent with piracy than the missile and drone ...

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 ...