Somalia's two-year council term is a chance to leverage its strategic position at the crossroads of international maritime trade.For the first time since 1971, Somalia has been elected as a ...

Piracy off the Somali coast peaked in 2011 when 237 attacks were reported. Somali piracy in the region at the time cost the world’s economy some $7 billion — with $160 million paid out in ...

Ambrey said early Tuesday “a suspected pirate action group has been sighted departing” off the coast of Eyl. Once-rampant piracy off the Somali coast diminished after a peak in 2011.

The Liao Dong Yu was “liberated”, the European Union’s Atalanta naval force (EUNAVFOR) said in a social media post, citing ...

Piracy off the coast of Somalia declined after peaking in 2011, but resumed at a faster pace in the past year.

A European naval force in the Mideast helped free a Yemeni fishing boat seized by suspected Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa.