Sources: CNN
Six foreigners including two Britons and an American are jailed for lengthy terms in Somalia after the seizure of a plane containing $3.6 million in ransom for pirates. 2011-06-19
Security forces in Somalia seize two planes carrying ransom money for pirates, and detain six foreigners. 2011-05-24
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
The Indian Navy captures 28 suspected Somali pirates on a Thai fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean. 2011-02-6
The United Nations says pirates off the coast of Somalia are "outperforming" an international effort to stop them. 2010-11-10
The African Union calls on the United Nations Security Council to impose an air and naval blockade of Somalia to counter an Islamist Al-Shabaab militant insurgency and piracy. 2010-10-21
Somali pirates hijack a Marshall Islands-flagged ship with 18 Filipino sailors on board in the southern Red Sea. 2010-07-5
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
Somali pirates seize the Russian oil tanker Moscow University with 23 people on board, 500 miles off the Somali coast. 2010-05-5
Pirates off the coast of Somalia seize a North Korean-flagged cargo ship south of Yemen. 2010-02-3