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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

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 seize a Thai-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia.
2010-12-26

The United Nations says child soldiers continue to be recruited to fight and engage in piracy in Somalia.
2010-11-4

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

Two potential pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia are disrupted by the Seychelles Coast Guard and the Australian navy.
2010-05-30

Piracy in Somalia: A South Korean warship catches up with an oil tanker that was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean.
2010-04-6

A Turkish ship is hijacked by Somali pirates more than 1,000 miles away from the coast of Somalia and closer to India.
2010-03-23

Pirates off the coast of Somalia seize a North Korean-flagged cargo ship south of Yemen.
2010-02-3