The attack came just 10 days after the hijacking of another Yemeni-flagged boat, Al Najma, which was freed on February 13, ...

But over the next three years that all changed. By 2013 attacks on ships by Somali pirates had declined 95 percent from the 2010 peak. The rapid collapse of the Somali pirates since 2010 began back in ...

The Liao Dong Yu was “liberated”, the European Union’s Atalanta naval force (EUNAVFOR) said in a social media post, citing ...

The Chinese Navy announced that one of its warships successfully foiled a potential pirate attack targeting a commercial vessel transiting the Gulf of Aden in the Red Sea. In a statement issued on ...

Heavily armed Somali pirates sometimes use hijacked dhows or fishing vessels as "mother ships" to launch long-range attacks. In mid-January, the International Chamber of Commerce's International ...

But the attack on the ship has also shone ... s territorial waters and maritime resources. Foreign ships arrived — as did Somali pirates who targeted them. By the early 2010s, Somali piracy ...

Insuring ships against piracy could become more expensive and subject to tighter conditions following a rise in piracy cases in the Indian Ocean and along the Horn of Africa over the past year.A ...

Israel is considering plans to send Gazans to Puntland, an autonomous region of Somalia, after Donald Trump’s pledge to ...

Last week, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) gained an interesting new addition – the Shahid Bagheri, ...

Two dozen ships from twelve navies on Tuesday took part in an international fleet review off the coast of Pakistan – the ...