Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms. In the...

Pirates are glorified criminals. The life of a pirate is packed with danger. But the myth about pirates only celebrates the loots. There is nothing romantic about...

The previous capture of a Saudi tanker carrying $100 million of crude raised awareness of the pirates operating off Somalia’s coast. The tanker was only released...

At last, epopee with Faina, a ship hired to bring Russian ammunition in Kenya from Odessa Port of the Ukraine, captured by Somali pirates in open sea, was finished as a...

Piracy in the Gulf of Aden has cost shippers between $18-30 million so far this year in ransoms and is threatening global business. Pirates have hijacked more than 30...

Pirates have released 14 Filipinos from among the 79 crewmen of two Malaysian tankers hijacked near Somalia in exchange for a ransom. The release came two days after...

Is shipping in the great horn of Africa increasingly falling at the mercy of the pirates? This seems to be the case with last Thursday’s hijack of Mv Faina, a...

How ransom kidnappings, once a rarity in most of Afghanistan, have become a cash source second only to the narcotics trade for the country’s insurgents