Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama container ship is seen docked at the Kenyan coastal sea port of Mombasa, 500 km (311 miles) from ...

NAIROBI – Somali pirates attempted to storm the French navy’s 18,000 tonne flagship in the Indian Ocean after mistaking it for a cargo vessel, the French military said on Wednesday. NAIROBI – Somali ...

A maritime policeman on a tag-boat guards oil tanker Aris-13, which was released by pirates, as it sails to dock on the shores of the Gulf of Aden in the city of Bosasso, northern Somalia's ...

For the first time in five years, pirates hijacked a commercial ship off the coast of Somalia, Somali officials said Tuesday. The Aris 13, an oil tanker with eight crew members aboard, sent out a ...