Piracy News

CREW members of a Belgian ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia in mid-April will be re-united with their families early next week, Belgium's government crisis centre said.

A Mombasa court has finally allowed seven Somali pirates on trial to communicate with their relatives back in Somalia.

The commander of Iran's Navy Real-Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said Wednesday that presence of Iran's naval forces in international waters displays the country's military power, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

New York Attorney General Lev Dassin said Tuesday the charge of piracy brought against a young Somali captured during a high seas drama carries a mandatory term of life imprisonment.

Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said Thursday.

Sinn FA©in Councillor Gerry MacLochlainn who has just returned from Gaza has described the Israeli government's decision to board and hijack a peace boat en-route to Gaza carrying medical aid as contemptible.

Al-Mina primary court in Aden city began on Wednesday started trailing 22 Somali pirates on charge of involving in piracy acts against ships crossing the Gulf of Aden's international waters.

NATO 's new commander said Thursday that the situation in Afghanistan remains "very challenging," but that the Taliban and other insurgents can be defeated.

Ethiopia Wednesday dismissed a threat of invasion from Somalia's hardline Islamist insurgents saying the rebels posed no clear and present danger.

On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy, in international waters, illegally boarded the 'Spirit of Humanity,' kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire , and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive ...

Tokyo - Japan has said it would dispatch two destroyers to an anti-piracy mission off Somalia in July with expanded rules of engagement including scope for greater use of force.

Mediators who try to broker deals between ship owners and pirates caused ransom payments to go up.

By Abdiaziz Hassan Nairobi - The bustling Eastleigh suburb in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been the hub of business for Kenyan-Somalis and thousands of refugees escaping civil war in neighbouring Somalia for decades.

The president of a semi-autonomous region of northern Somalia is speaking to a crowd of his fellow Somalis in Minneapolis.

A consortium of Arab states have set up a joint anti-piracy naval force to prevent the spread of piracy from the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea and Gulf.

As a native son of Eyl, the historic hamlet that is now notorious as the hub for Somali piracy, and as a Somali who has sought refuge in the United States from the anarchy that is Somalia, I am deeply bothered and conflicted by the Somali pirates.

A radical Islamic group in Somalia has threatened to seize weapons and ammunition the U.S. has supplied to the nation's embattled government.

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NATO has replaced the flotilla conducting anti-piracy patrols off Somalia for the past three months with a new force that will continue the operation "indefinitely," a spokesman said Monday.

Facing a rare defeat, President Barack Obama put a big dose of political capital on the line and scored a major victory just when he needed one.