Piracy Drops Worldwide

The Chinese Navy frigate Huangshan leaves Valletta's Grand Harbour March 30, 2013, after concluding an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf o...

Aboard The RFA Fort Victoria In Pirate Infested Waters

Hunting Pirates On Board The RFA Fort Victoria -- The Telegraph Holly Watt reports from the RFA Fort Victoria in the Indian Ocean as a raid ...

Somali Piracy Costs The Global Economy $12 billion

A pirate at the coastline of Somalia. Political instability and civil strife in the country have spurred piracy in the Indian Ocean into a g...

Not All Pirates Are Bad

Max Hardberger in Miragoâne, the Haitian port where he staged his most daring ship repossession, stealing a 10,000-ton freighter from under ...

Worldwide Piracy At An All-Time High

Maritime piracy may be at an all-time high, with 142 attacks reported worldwide in the first three months of 2011. CNN Report: Piracy At A R...

Global Piracy Costs Billions

Several of the 19 captured Somali pirates, captured by the french navy on January 4, 2009. the French naval vessel Jean de Vienne, patrollin...

An Examination On The Ruthless Calculus Behind A New Age Of Piracy

The 290-foot, three-masted cruise ship Le Ponant was targeted last year by Somali pirates, who held hostage its crew of 30—a harbinger of at...

Piracy Is Now Spreading To The West Coast Of Africa

Piracy attacks since the beginning of the year. ( Photo from Ministry of Jesus Benin ) Pirates Take New Territory: West African Gulf Of Guin...

The Weak Link in Anti-Piracy Efforts

From New Wars: Last week a USN helicopter was fired on by a Somali pirate from a Taiwanese freighter. They just keep getting bolder, and get...

West Weighs Arming Ships To Counter Naval Piracy

From AP: STANBUL — Challenging a global aversion to guns aboard ships, France has put troops on tuna boats in the Indian Ocean, and Belgium ...

Using Satellites To Combat Naval Piracy

Close Encounters of the Pirate Kind -- Defense Tech This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. The U.S. is explori...

Captain Once Held By Pirates Urges Military Protection, Armed Crews

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, Maersk-Alabama Capt. Richard Phillips, right, shakes hands with Lt. Cmdr. David Fowler, executive o...

Ridding Somalia Of Pirates: Hard Choices For The West

Kenyan authorities escort a suspected pirate from the French frigate Nivose, part of the European Union's anti-piracy naval mission off ...

Petraeus: Shippers Should Consider Armed Guards

Photo: U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, addresses an audience during a forum at the John F. Kennedy School of G...

Not Your Forefather’s War On Piracy

Suspected pirates hold up thir hands in the Gulf of Aden in February. Somali pirates seized two more ships, brushing off their losses from d...

The Most Notorious Pirates Ever

From Live Science: Pirates are a hot topic these days, as modern buccaneers continue to terrorize the world's busy shipping lanes much l...

What Thomas Jefferson Knew About Pirates

PAST/PRESENT A Barbary Wars fight in 1804. Mansell/Time & Life Pictures — Getty Images From The New York Times: NAIROBI, Kenya — An Amer...

Exclusive Video: How the Littoral Combat Ship Will Fight Pirates

From War Is Boring: Commander Don Gabrielson of USS Freedom discusses how his new high-speed, “modular” ship might fight pirates. He mention...

West Africa Pirate Threat On Rise

From The BBC: World attention on piracy off Somalia has diverted attention from the growing threat of attacks off west Africa, according to ...

Warship Rescues Pirates, Sinks Their Ship

From The Australian: A DANISH anti-piracy warship has rescued seven suspected pirates whose boat had broken down in the Gulf of Aden and the...