BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium has arrested the suspected leader of a Somali pirate group after luring him to Brussels with promises to make a documentary about his money-making life on the high seas, ...

The latest trailer for the Tom Hanks-starring, Paul Greengrass-directed Somali pirate drama Captain Phillips shows us, yes, an Oscar-hungry Hanks hitting all the awards-bait notes (accent, humble ...

Pirates off the coasts of Somalia have hijacked a commercial vessel for the first time in 18 months, raising fears of a ...

FBI begins process of examining how to prosecute 15 captured Somali pirates. Feb. 23, 2011 — -- The bodies of the four Americans killed after Somali pirates hijacked their yacht headed home on ...

Even by the jaded standards of the failed state of Somalia, this week’s news was enough to raise eyebrows: one of the country’s two competing Islamist factions, Hizbul Islam, stormed into the coastal ...

European Union naval forces under Operation Atalanta have successfully liberated the Maltese-flagged merchant tanker Hellas ...

A European Union vessel has reached a ship taken by pirates off the coast of Somalia and found all its 24 crew members safe.