An Italian cruise ship carrying 1,200 passengers and crew fended off a pirate attack near the Seychelles, company officials said Sunday. The ship was attacked on Saturday evening by armed pirates ...

Pirates are so brazen, they can go after cruise ships, which can be veritable floating cities. They don't do it often – there have only been six reported attacks in the last decade – but that ...

(CNN) -- The Liberty Sun, a U.S.-flagged cargo ship bound for Mombasa, Kenya, was attacked Tuesday by Somali pirates, according to a NATO source with direct knowledge of the matter. "The pirates ...

A regional maritime official confirmed on Wednesday that an international naval force rescued a Chinese ship from nine Somali pirates in the latest surge in piracy in the Gulf of Aden.

The Ghana Police Service has arrested four individuals of different nationalities in connection with a pirate attack that led to the abduction of three Chinese nationals, who were crew members aboard ...

"We confirm that two Russians were kidnapped from the ship Water Phoenix as a result of an attack by pirates 30 kilometers away from Lagos on September 8," the embassy said on its official portal.