NAIROBI – A dozen soldiers guarding a North Korean ship impounded in Somalia’s autonomous Puntland region for maritime violations have hijacked the vessel and its 33 crew, government and naval...

Herdon, Virginia — U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (Ret.) Terence E. “Terry” McKnight, the pioneering U.S. Commander of Task Force 151 off the coast of Somali and the author of the...

On Saturday 8 September, Spanish warship ESPS Relámpago, currently operating as part of the EU Naval Force – Operation ATALANTA, fighting piracy off the Somali Coast, rescued 68 people after...

Somali pirates have killed a crew member of the hijacked M/V Orna as part of a tactic to speed up ransom payment. The Panama-flagged bulk carrier was hijacked on December...

A group of alleged Somali pirates have been slapped with piracy charges for the second time in connection to an attack on a U.S. Navy ship in the Gulf of...

NAIROBI, Kenya (Dow Jones)-Kenya’s prime minister on Friday appealed for swift international action to head off the risk of Somali militants linking up with their counterparts in other African countries...

As we saw yesterday, the European Union’s Naval force, known as EUNAVFOR, has conducted its first airstrikes on pirate targets along the beaches in Somalia since declaring in March that...

Unidentified military fighter jets launched an airstrike earlier this week in northern Somalia in a suspected attack on a pirate base, AFP has reported citing a coastguard official and several...

We’ve all been there.  That lucid moment when all of a sudden you look around and realize, “I am wasting my life right now and it’s time for a change.”...

By JD, Somalia Report Police from Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland seized 43 pirates during operations against pirates in the village of Garacad in Puntland’s Mudug region, senior officials said. Officials...

The MV Iceberg 1 is a Panama-flagged Roll on-Roll off ship that was attacked and overrun by pirates on 29 March 2010.  Since that time, the crew has been left...

In what may be the first reported case of Somalis doing their part to prevent Somalia-based piracy operations, a speed boat carrying 7 men, AK-47s, RPGs, and ammo were seized by...

Insiders tell how pirates are destroying the system that allows them to flourish.  By Robert Young Pelton, Somalia Report Somalia Report has identified a trend that indicates that the $4.5M ransom...

By Jama Deperani, Somalia Report Local fishermen in Somalia will now wear uniforms to differentiate them from the pirates, according to officials from Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia known...

[youtube width=”600″ height=”506″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO073dcrcy4 Go figure… I can’t imagine the decision to cancel a sailboat race between Cape Town and Abu Dhabi would have been a tough call considering the dire...

M/V MARIDA MARGUERITE. MarineTraffic.com via EUNAVFOR NORFOLK, Va.—A man accused of negotiating on behalf of Somali pirates in the deadly hijacking of a U.S. yacht has been indicted on charges...

Today’s Pirates Have Their Own Stock Exchange; Western powers patrol the seas but do little to stop pirate financing. By Avi Jorisch Pirates are on a hot streak this season....

This weeks incident photos comes to us via the USS Bulkeley which, over the weekend, successfully freed the Japanese-owned tanker M/V Guanabara and her crew of 24 from pirate control...

At approximately 0600Z on 28 February, the Bulk Cargo Carrier MV DOVER was pirated approximately 260 nautical miles North East of Salalah in the North Arabian Sea. The Panamanian flagged,...

Days before the Quest set off on its doomed trek across the Indian Ocean, Bill Rouse, a Texan attempting to sail around the world, made Quest owner Scott Adam an...