He saw the Somali pirates in a small wooden boat ... Once the wooden boat had been cleared of weapons and the pirates had been apprehended, El Haroun said they looked decidedly less menacing.

Pirates may not be as prevalent as they once were, but they can still be a nuisance on a cruise ship. This is how ships use ...

(CNN)-- The crew members of a North Korean freighter regained control of their ship from pirates who hijacked the vessel off Somalia ... pirates to give up their weapons, according to the Navy.

As the world attempts to grapple with the country’s sharp turn towards authoritarianism and Hindutva, little attention has been paid to the way India has leaned on Israeli weapons, military ...

However, pirate activity began to increase after Ethiopia invaded Somalia in December 2006 ... heavy and modern weapons, including airplanes were used. One was a United States Air Force ...

To an extent, Somalia’s Pirate Stock Exchange preserved a good deal of the Dutch ... whether personally at sea or on land by providing cash, weapons, or useful materials… We’ve made piracy a community ...

These weapons are fairly discreet as radiation does not generate ... For example, in 2005 the cruise-liner “Seabourn Spirit” used a sonic weapon to defend itself from Somali pirates in the Indian ...

View Full Image Hijacked: A True Story of Surviving 331 Days with Somali Pirates, by Pralav Dhyani, HarperCollins India. We were excited, because being a senior cadet comes with its own perks ...