After seven-week hijack, Puntland locals say they are victims of foreign trawlers. But China calls the attack ‘vicious’.

The December hijacking of the ship was the first time since 2017 that any cargo vessel has been successfully boarded by Somali pirates. The navy said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the ...

“We are not pirates. We are a community under siege ... told Al Jazeera by phone from the ship that after the Somali guards were disarmed, the group “seized three AK-47s and three black ...

What remained was the fact that only off Somalia could ships and crews be taken and held for ransom for long periods. Everywhere else the pirates were usually only interested in robbing the crew and ...

The ship is flying under a Panamanian flag. Pirates have attacked more than 100 ships off the Somali coast over the last year, reaping an estimated $1 million in ransom for each successful ...

A maritime piracy attack occurred on the night of Jan. 31 in Gabonese waters, highlighting ongoing security concerns in the ...

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

When the ship doesn’t stop ... Adado, a town in central Somalia where pirates once invested, earned the nicknamed "Blue City" because their newly built mansions often had blue-painted iron ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The crew of a German-owned tanker that was hijacked by Somali pirates two months ago in ...

Forces from a nearby American warship captured the pirates as they tried to flee in a small boat. The two attacks have led the Somali government to call for greater international support to deter ...