If you ever catch a sleek, gray Navy destroyer coming into port with a gigantic black flag flying above it with a skull and crossbones, you may think you have stepped onto the set of a pirate film.

U.S. Marines stormed a German-owned commercial vessel that had been captured by Somali pirates, in what appears to be the first U.S.-led military boarding off the coast of East Africa.

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 modern tech to combat pirates.

But in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, some pirates shifted their geographical focus to the Indian Ocean, along Africa’s eastern coast, lured by treasure-laden ships carrying gold ...

Among Harlock’s admirers is Meloni, who in 2019 posted a tribute to her Twitter (now X) account on the 40th anniversary of the space pirate’s first appearance on Italian television screens.

U.S. Navy ship sinks a pirate mother ship in the Indian Ocean and captures 11 pirates, but then lets them go. ABC News confirms that drone led to capture of pirates earlier in the week.

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Pirates off Nigeria’s coast kidnapped 15 sailors from a Turkish container ship on Saturday, in a brazen and violent attack that was farther from shore than usual.

La Crosse, Wis., may be nearly 2,000 miles — as the cannonball flies — from the historic pirate stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, but buccaneer Dan Kellogg and his crew of damned souls… ...

Judging by the location of the attack, the pirates likely were from the same group that hijacked a U.N.-chartered aid ship in June and held its crew and food cargo hostage for 100 days, said ...