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

According to the embassy, the vessel was placed under the illegal control of an armed group in the waters off the coast of Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in Somalia’s northeast, and taken to ...

The pirates holding the vessel had reportedly demanded a $10 million ransom. The Chinese Embassy in Somalia said the vessel was rescued after “the unremitting efforts of the Chinese government.” “The ...

The African Union and other global powers believe territorial ... Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels may have replaced Somali pirates as the main disruptor of traffic in the area but the attacks ...

The African Union, established in 2002 to replace the OAU, was designed to address conflicts through “African solutions for ...

The African Union and other global powers believe ... Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels may have replaced Somali pirates as the main disruptor of traffic in the area but the attacks remain ...

Somali pirates have released a Chinese-owned fishing vessel ... the European Union mission that monitors security of vessels navigating off the Horn of Africa waters. The mission also confirmed that ...

The US Agency for International Development, an organization that dates to President John F. Kennedy’s attempts to fight Soviet influence in the developing world, is on the brink of collapse. Over the ...

A regional thaw that started with the Türkiye-led Somalia-Ethiopia Ankara Declaration will create alliances with neighboring ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...