Piracy, once notorious in this stretch of the Indian Ocean, has made a comeback in recent years.

Pirates hijacked an oil tanker off Somalia, causing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait closure market for April 30 to drop to 2.2% YES.

Somalia has closed the Bab el-Mandab Strait to Israeli shipping, escalating tensions in the US-Israel-Iran conflict. The ...

Drought, failed rains, and conflict drive 6.5 million Somalis into hunger; children face acute malnutrition risks.

The head of the UN’s civil aviation agency, ICAO, has called for immediate global action to protect commercial flights from ...

The Trump administration has conducted 58 airstrikes in Somalia in 2026 targeting al-Shabaab and ISIS-Somalia, potentially a ...

Somalia condemned Israel’s dispatch of an envoy to the breakaway northern region of Somaliland as an affront to its ...

Pakistan, April 24 -- Pirates operating near Somalia have seized an oil tanker and taken its crew hostage, including 11 ...

Foreign ministers from 15 countries have strongly condemned Israel’s reported decision to appoint a diplomatic envoy to ...

Somalia has taken the dramatic step of barring Israeli-linked vessels from transiting the vital Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a ...

Türkiye's deployment of F-16 multirole fighters to Somalia was confirmed on 12 April 2026 when three performed a flyby during ...