Somali piracy has risen sharply adding to maritime shipping threats in a region of the world already dealing with Red Sea chaos caused by Houthi attacks.

Two Somali fishermen ... last year to turn to piracy. According to the European Union’s naval force Operation Atalanta, which patrols nearby, there were 26 pirate attacks between 2013 and ...

It appears to be the latest in a long line of Somali pirate attacks in the waters off the Horn of Africa this year, which have prompted military patrols by the EU, and the US navy. Security ...

Strikes were carried out in north Somalia, where the Puntland Security Forces is carrying out operations against ISIL.

But the attack on the ship ... so did the mechanisms to safeguard Somalia’s territorial waters and maritime resources. Foreign ships arrived — as did Somali pirates who targeted them.

That year alone, Somali pirates carried out 212 attacks. The World Bank estimated that these cost the world economy $18 billion (Sh2.8 trillion). In a recent analysis, we concluded that a range of ...

While the United States isn't specifically required to help North Korea, an important part of the U.S. Navy's ongoing mission ...

But over the next three years that all changed. By 2013 attacks on ships by Somali pirates had declined 95 percent from the 2010 peak. The rapid collapse of the Somali pirates since 2010 began back in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that “multiple operatives” had been killed in remote mountains in the country’s north.

Attacks rose by fourteen percent towards the end of last year, largely around the territorial waters off Somalia. According to the International Maritime Bureau, pirates attack different kinds of ...