DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Suspected Somali pirates have seized a Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa, authorities said late Monday. A European naval operation in the Mideast, known as ...

The vessel and its crew were seized in late November and transported to the Xaafuun district in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in northeastern Somalia. The pirates responsible for the ...

January 23, 2025: The Somali pirates are back in action. It’s been eleven years since the last outbreak of piracy in the Red Sea. Violence against commercial shipping in the Red Sea region began in ...

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks during an interview in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 20. (Feisal Omar/Reuters) The al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which operates in ...

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he ordered military airstrikes in Somalia, taking out a senior ISIS attack planner and other terrorists the planner had recruited. The strikes come ...

Foreign ships arrived — as did Somali pirates who targeted them. By the early 2010s, Somali piracy had declined. A main reason for this was the entry of international navies sent into Somali ...

Bosaso, Somalia — A senior commander of the Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, according to police and state media. The arrest comes just two days after U.S. airstrikes ...

MOGADISHU, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A senior commander of Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted with U.S ...

Colin Freeman, The Telegraph’s correspondent, was kidnapped by Somali pirates based in the region for 40 days in 2008. The leader of Somalia’s Islamic State branch is Puntland-born Abdul Qadir ...

Feb. 1 (UPI) --Multiple ISIS-Somalia operatives died in coordinated airstrikes carried out Saturday by the U.S. Africa Command in the Golis Mountains in Somalia. President Donald Trump ordered the ...

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