After a North Korean ship was captured by Somali pirates ... Navy, specifically the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS James E. Williams, which was the closest vessel in the area. While the United ...

Mogadishu, Somalia ... have prevented us from feeding our families,” Liban said, speaking of his team. “We can’t live like this,” the fisherman-turned-pirate added.

They are an elite force in our United States military, but their missions are ... was rescued from after being taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009. "Oh yeah, (they wore) completely different ...

None of the men ... Somali pirates. The seizure of the Alabama was the first time an American-flagged ship had been captured by pirates since the Second Barbary War of 1815, and the U.S. Navy ...

In 1993, American pilot Michael Durant was captured in Mogadishu, Somalia, The U.S. Ambassador ... Of course, let us not forget Operation Entebbe (1976) where terrorists threatened murder.

Somali Pirates aboard a captured motor craft fired at a US Navy helicopter which is part of the Bahrain-based mission to make the high seas safer. The motor vessel Win Far, fired what appeared to be a ...

Somali Pirate Takedown: The Real Story (2009 ... We also get some diagrams showing us how the Navy SEALS attacked the lifeboat and made certain that the hostage wouldn't be harmed. At around ...

Whose credit is there for the release not only of the Bulgarians, but also of a number of other sailors of different nationalities who were also captured ... Somali pirates, and the crew was used as a ...

The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the ...

In 1944, a US Navy task group hunted a Nazi U-boat in a top-secret operation that was only made public after the war ended, marking the first time the service captured an enemy vessel since 1812.