Somali piracy has risen sharply adding to maritime shipping threats in a region of the world already dealing with Red Sea chaos caused by Houthi attacks.

January 23, 2025: The Somali pirates are back in action ... There was a resurgence in 2023 and 2024 with a dozen minor incidents. These involved hijackings of a few large ships that were quickly ...

But they resumed in 2023, with six attacks and surged to ... Adado, a town in central Somalia where pirates once invested, earned the nicknamed "Blue City" because their newly built mansions ...

That year alone, Somali pirates carried out 212 attacks ... money from any of the other five attacks launched in the 2017-2023 period. We haven't been able to ascertain if any ransom was paid ...

On March 15, 2024, an Indian Navy long-range maritime patrol intercepted the Ruen about 260 nautical miles east of Somalia.

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

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 ...