A SAILOR who was held hostage for a year on a ship hijacked by Somali pirates has told of the harrowing moment he was forced ...

The United States says the episode is unrelated to regional tensions, though it is still investigating the firing of two ...

The destroyer USS Mason and a number of allied ships from the nearby counter-piracy task force initially responded to the ...

In Somalia, at least six people have been killed when a suicide bomber targeted a minibus full of delegates involved in parliamentary elections in Mogadishu. Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab armed group has ...

An attack on a commercial shipping vessel, sailing under a Liberian flag but linked to an Israel businessman, was likely ...

The Pentagon says the five armed assailants captured by U.S. forces after seizing a commercial ship near Yemen over the ...

The attack occurred on Saturday afternoon in Buloburde, a city in Hiran district where government forces and clan militias have been battling the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents since the middle of ...

MOGADISHU - Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has criticized ongoing operations by Israelis in the Gaza Strip, calling for immediate ceasefire after thousands of people were reported dead and ...

The USS Carney shot down at least three Houthi drones headed in the ship’s direction in the southern Red Sea on Sunday and ...

A Ugandan military court has found two officers guilty of cowardice as Islamist fighters stormed an African Union base in Somalia in May. Colonel Deo Akiki and Major John Oluka ran away after they ...

A failed hijacking of a commercial ship near the Red Sea last weekend has raised questions on whether suspected pirate ...