Somali pirates are back on the attack, with piracy around the Horn of Africa rising sharply in recent months and adding to ...

ESPS Santa Maria keeping a weather eye on a suspected hijacked fishing vessel. Picture: Op Atalanta. Six weeks after surveillance was mounted on a Chinese fishing vessel pirated off Somalia, the ...

Historical records are replete with tales of pirate attacks dating back ... most notably off the coast of Somalia, the Gulf of Guinea, and the Strait of Malacca. Recent reports indicate alarming ...

Some travelers love visiting countries that are statistically dangerous. Venturing across the pond is alluring and thrilling, ...

A maritime piracy attack occurred on the night of Jan. 31 in Gabonese waters, highlighting ongoing security concerns in the ...

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.

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 ...

Trump said the hit, less than two weeks into his term, had targeted a senior IS attack planner and other militants in Somalia ...

He wrote that he directed "precision military air strikes on the senior ISIS attack planner and other terrorists" in Somalia. "Recent airstrikes have led to the neutralization of key figures ...

EUNAVFOR has counted 44 piracy-related incidents in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali basin since November 2023. Twenty-eight of them were actual attacks, boardings or hijackings. Dhows, which ...

boats and a team of 18 MARCOs with combat load to capture a pirate-controlled ship, which was not only launching attacks on merchant vessels in the Arabian Sea, but also opened fire at INS Kolkata ...