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The Somali pirates are back in action. In late April the Somalis seized an oil tanker and a cargo ship. These attacks involved new groups mostly composed of impoverished young men who are heavily ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A radical Islamic group in Somalia said Friday it will fight the pirates holding a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million worth of crude oil. Abdelghafar Musa, a fighter with ...

As the global economy focuses on the Strait of Hormuz crisis, another shipping crisis looms in the region -- the return of Somali pirates.

Picture this: You’re a Somali pirate scanning the horizon for your next target. Through the morning haze, you spot what appears to be a slow-moving cargo vessel—exactly the kind of easy prey that made ...

Somali pirates were reported have hijacked a South Korean fishing vessel suspected of carrying out illegal fishing off the coast of Somalia, Garowe Online reports. On Saturday South Korea has ...

According to the JMIC, which is run by a massive 47-nation coalition deployed in the northern Indian Ocean to fight the Horn of Africa's longtime pirate menace, the dhow was attacked about 10 nautical ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Suspected pirates have boarded a St. Kitts and Nevis-flagged general cargo vessel off Somalia’s coast and were sailing it toward the Somali shoreline, maritime security groups ...