On April 8, 2009, the US-flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama was hijacked while it was passing along the coast of Somalia. The ...

(CNN)-- The drama of an American ship captain held hostage by Somali pirates led last Sunday's talk shows. Just hours before Maersk Alabama Capt. Richard Phillips was rescued, the piracy incident ...

When Somali pirates hijacked the Maersk Alabama in 2009, they thought they’d struck gold. What they didn’t expect? The full force of the U.S. Navy. This is the true story of Captain Richard ...

The crew of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama had hoped their ... The ship had eluded the pirates for more than three hours off the coast of Somalia before being boarded, Joe Murphy said his son ...

Al-Shabaab is rapidly closing in on Mogadishu, threatening commercial and military shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian ...

Captain Richard Phillips, whose hostage ordeal inspired a film, will speak in Frankenmuth on May 13 at the Michigan Heroes ...