WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Pirates off the eastern coast of Africa fired on U.S. sailors Saturday as they tried to reach the lifeboat where an American captain is being held, a U.S. official familiar with ...

"We have decided to kill U.S. and French sailors if they happen to be among our future hostages," said Abdullahi Ahmed, a member of a pirate group based at Harardhere, a coastal town in central ...

All of these characteristics pirates had, because having a parrot as a pet, missing arms, eyes and hands, was very common among sailors in that time period. And almost all pirates had previously ...

Slaves may have seized territory, killed masters, and even overthrown colonial governments, but pirates and mutinous sailors never permanently crippled a British or French shipping route.

SEVASTOPOL, February 9. /TASS/. The sailors captured by Nigerian pirates earlier this week are alive and in good health and talks are in progress on their release, human rights ombudsman in ...

Three Chinese nationals are missing after their vessel came under a “suspected pirate attack” off the coast of Ghana, authorities said over the weekend. The apparent kidnapping is the latest ...

PRETORIA, October 31./ TASS /.Somali pirates set free seven Indian sailors, who were held hostage for four years, in exchange for the ransom. The information about the ransom sum is not being ...

Sea pirates still enjoy a romantic image today. Many legends have been told about famous buccaneers. But who were these men: mere sailors or brutal thieves? How did they live? This film takes us ...