U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain hostage after seeing that one of the pirates "had an AK-47 leveled at the captain's back," a military official said ...

Suspected Somali pirates have fled a Yemeni fishing boat they seized off the Horn of Africa and operated for five days, authorites said Monday. In a statement, a European naval force known as EUNAVFOR ...

the number of Somali piracy attacks declined sharply as counter-piracy measures - a greater international naval presence; legislation to prosecute suspected pirates within the region; ships ...