NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Federico Varese, a professor at Sciences Po who studies Somalia's maritime criminal gangs, about why attacks on ships off Somalia's coast are on the rise again.

An alarm blares across the ship. People start shouting. Then you hear it, gunfire. This is not a movie, and Captain Jack Sparrow is not coming to help you. Somewhere out on open water, pirates are ...

Pirate groups are also changing the way they attack ships. The number of attacks by pirates off the coast of Somalia has reached its highest level in more than a decade. Experts have warned that the ...

After years of relative calm, Somali piracy is once again resurging, with a growing number of vessels being targeted off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden, prompting renewed concerns among the ...

The Pirates of the Caribbean perished by the early 18th Century; the pirates of Somalia are surging in 2026. The catalyst is the escalating conflict in the Middle East, which is forcing commercial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There has been an uptick in pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia, and a ship linked to Iran's alleged attempt to circumvent ...

Somali-armed gangs - pirates off the East Coast of Africa - have attacked eight ships since April, boarded them and taken their crew for ransom. The international naval forces patrolling the region ...