Somali piracy is resurging after years of relative calm, with at least 13 commercial vessels attacked or targeted in 2026.

Somali pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off Yemen, marking a resurgence in piracy.

According to Reuters, the Sibu 1, an oil tanker flying the Eritrean flag, was attacked and boarded by six Somali pirates ...

A United Nations agency told countries to “strongly discourage” merchant ship crews from acquiring firearms to defend against ...

A merchant vessel transiting off Yemen’s southern coast exchanged gunfire with an armed small craft on Tuesday in an incident that appears more consistent with piracy than the missile and drone ...

On the evening of April 26, the Egyptian merchant vessel Sward was hijacked by armed men a few miles off the Somali coast. It was steered towards an anchorage near the port of Garacad in Puntland, a ...