In one famous case a former pirate - Abdirahman ... Adado, a town in central Somalia where pirates once invested, earned the nicknamed "Blue City" because their newly built mansions often had ...

A European naval force in the Mideast helped free a Yemeni fishing boat seized by suspected Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa ...

Russia and Iran like to tout themselves as America's largest and most determined enemies, but everyone in the international community knows few geopolitical beefs run deeper than the United States ...

The maritime security firm Ambrey said the attack saw the suspects steal three small boats equipped with 60-horsepower ...

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 ...