Trump said Somali pirates will get same "treatment" as alleged drug traffickers.

Somali pirates have turned high-seas kidnappings into a lucrative business, one that netted between $50 million and $150 million last year, a former Navy SEAL told CNN. Kaj Larsen spoke to CNN's ...

Pirates off the coast of Somalia have successfully hijacked a commercial vessel for the first time in 18 months, raising fears of a resurgence in armed attacks. The Malta-flagged Hellas Aphrodite, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The trial of eight Somali men accused of piracy in the attempted hijacking of a Danish freighter has been put off until January after a preliminary session Thursday. The men were captured by a British ...