The recent deaths of four Americans at the hands of Somali pirates is leading military and legal scholars to question the ways in which...

More than 20 countries have joined anti-piracy patrols in the Indian Ocean in an effort to curb the often brazen acts of piracy that have...

Sheikh Daud Ali Hasan, a senior level commander of the Somali insurgent group al-Shabab, was shot and killed while exiting a mosque...

Recently, UN coordinator Mark Bowden said that the US government has asked the UN and a variety of NGOs to allow aid to Somalis based on...

Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab announced that it would ally with al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden in waging an international...

At least 19 people, including three Somalia government ministers, were killed when a suicide bomber disguised as a woman detonated an...

Minneapolis is home to the largest Somali population in the U.S. However, in recent years, it has become home to a radical Islamist...

On Monday, approximately twelve Somali pirates attempted to board the MV Harriette, an American vessel out of Oyster Bay, N.Y. The...

There were no causalities in this attack which took place off the coast of the Seychelles. A majority of recent pirate attacks have been...

Somalia has suffered a string of insurgent attacks recently. The Islamist group responsible for the attacks is called Shabab. Despite the...