A ship and its crew of 22 sailors held hostage by Somali pirates for almost three years have been freed after a two-week-long siege by maritime police, the government of the breakaway region of ...

Somali pirates have turned high-seas kidnappings into a lucrative business, one that netted between $50 million and $150 million last year, a former Navy SEAL told CNN. Kaj Larsen spoke to CNN's ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The U.S. Navy destroyer had been shadowing a hijacked yacht with four Americans aboard for days, in radio contact with their captors in waters off East Africa. Two pirates had even ...

Somali pirates who have been holding a hijacked ship for nearly two years killed a Syrian hostage crew member and wounded another to protest delayed ransom payment, a pirate leader said.