In 2009, the French Navy tanker La Somme was patrolling the pirate infested waters off Somalia when two small motorized boats suddenly opened fire on the heavily armed warship. Armed with a 40 ...

Resurgent Somali pirates fired machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades as they boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, British officials said. In what is likely the latest assault by ...

When Somali pirates set their sights on a US Navy warship, they’re about to mess with the wrong ship. In this video, we’ll take you inside the intense scenario of a Somali pirate attack on a US Navy ...

November 29, 2025: Earlier this month, about 600 kilometers east of the Somali capital Mogadishu, a chemical tanker was threatened by Somali pirates. In the predawn murk, four Somali gunmen on a speed ...

This month, a massive commercial vessel was hijacked 620 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. Formally flagged to Malta, the Hellas Aphrodite is a Greek-owned tanker that was carrying gasoline ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -A European Union naval mission has taken control of an Iranian-flagged dhow used by pirates last week to attack an oil ‌products tanker off the coast of Somalia and later abandoned.

Last week, a massive commercial vessel was hijacked 620 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. Formally flagged to Malta, the Hellas Aphrodite is a Greek-owned tanker that was carrying gasoline from ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The European Union and Indian navies have taken over a ship used by pirates off the coast of Somalia to seize a Malta-flagged tanker, the EU force said Wednesday.

MOGADISHU — Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia, Somali officials and piracy experts said Tuesday, in the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel on the crucial global ...

A recent e-mail appeal from Mercy Corps uses a headline-grabbing event to focus donors’ attention on its work. “There’s more to Somalia than piracy,” reads e-mail’s subject line. “You’ve probably been ...

A D.C. federal judge has sentenced a Somali pirate to 25 years in prison for attacking a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden. Pirates held the ship for 71 days. The sentence will run concurrently with ...