On April 8, 2009, the US-flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama was hijacked while it was passing along the coast of Somalia. The ...

(CNN)-- Pirates hijacked three ships off the coast of Somalia on Thursday in the "worst number of attacks" in one day in many years, an international maritime watchdog said. "Four attacks in two ...

A U.S. Navy spokesman said the tanker is approaching Eyl, Somalia, on the Indian Ocean coast. It is routine procedure for pirates to take hijacked ships to shore, where they will keep them while ...

It was not immediately clear whether the $10 million ransom demanded by the pirates had been paid. Read: Return of piracy on Somalia waters to push up costsAtalanta said there had been an increase ...

China vigilant as hijacked ship heads to Somalia; Naval task force returns from Somalia escort mission; Commander: More openness will benefit the Navy; China's anti-piracy escorts ...

This raises an important question: Has Puntland been formally excluded from Somalia? Or is this merely an attempt by Mogadishu to rewrite history and erase Puntland’s role in the fight against ...

Now its sequel is playing out to devastating effect in Somalia. Al-Shabaab — a Salafi ... then challenged by Islamic terrorists and pirates from Puntland. In October 2002, the Combined Joint ...

Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has rejected an attempt by the central government to give the US exclusive control of a port and airbase in Berbera.The city lies on the strategic Gulf of Aden ...

BOSASO, Somalia - Even with limited resources for the fight against ISIS militants, the Puntland frontline military leaders have vowed to press on until all territories occupied by the militants are ...

Writer/director Bryan Buckley treats Bahadur's 2008-09 odyssey, chronicled in his nonfiction book The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World, as an elucidating examination of kinship more ...