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Al-Shabaab militants storm a military base in Puntland. The subsequent battle with the Somali military leaves at least 70 people dead. Somali officials called the attack the deadliest in the country in years.
2017-06-8

Troops in Somalia's region of Puntland free 22 hostages seized by pirates nearly three years ago.
2012-12-23

Five Somali pirates are sentenced to life in a United States prison plus 80 years for an attack on the United States Navy frigate USS Nicholas.
2011-03-14

South Korea will fly the bodies of eight Somali pirates killed in a commando raid on a freighter last month from Muscat, Oman, to Mogadishu, Somalia.
2011-02-16

Somali pirates capture six crew from Denmark and the Philippines leaving the ship intact. They are thought to be held on a captured Taiwanese fishing boat.
2011-01-14

Somali pirates receive a record £7.6m in ransoms for seized South Korean and Singaporean ships.
2010-11-6

Somali pirates hijack a South Korean owned Kenyan registered fishing boat with 43 crew aboard.
2010-10-17

Somali pirates seize a Panamanian-flagged ship with 15 Indian crewmen on board, off the coast of Tanzania.
2010-09-30

Fighting between Somali government troops and local police has killed at least 13 people in Mogadishu and gunmen killed a judiciary official of the semi-autonomous Puntland region in the Hamarjajab district.
2010-06-14

Somali forces from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland storm a hijacked Panamanian-flagged cargo ship, capturing the pirates and freeing the crew.
2010-06-3