April 6, 2010— -- When pirates attacked Capt. Richard Phillips' ship last April, he tried to fend them off by firing warning flares at them, popping up between bursts of fire from AK-47s to ...

The rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips, the American sailor held hostage by Somali pirates, came to a dramatic and happy conclusion on Sunday night off the coast of Africa. However, the problem of ...

U.S. Navy special forces shot dead three Somali pirates on a lifeboat off Somalia and freed American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips on Sunday in a dramatic end to a five-day standoff ...

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Pirates vow revenge for the deaths of 3 pirates at the hands of the U.S. Navy. April 13, 2009 — -- The wife of Capt. Richard Phillips tearfully thanked the Navy crew that rescued her husband ...

We had pocket knives and knives and fire hoses to combat pirates, he said. He also repeated claims by the crew that Phillips ignored many warnings to keep the ship 600 miles off the Somali coast, ...

Away from the spotlight, the pirates have been striking regularly for years. As well as American ship captain Richard Phillips, they are now holding about 250 other hostages, including 92 ...

MOMBASA, Kenya - Undeterred by U.S. and French hostage rescues that killed five bandits, Somali pirates brazenly hijacked four more ships in the Gulf of Aden, the waterway at the center of the world's ...

U.S. cargo ship captain Richard Phillips has been freed from captivity at the hands of Somali pirates who had held him hostage on a lifeboat after trying to seize his vessel, CNN reported on ...

MOMBASA, Kenya, April 13 -- Gunmen fired mortars at a plane carrying a U.S. congressman Monday as he departed the Somali capital, and President Obama, speaking later in Washington, vowed to work ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali pirates and their hostage American sea captain were adrift in a lifeboat Thursday off the Horn of Africa, shadowed by a U.S. destroyer with more warships on the way in a U ...

U.S. cargo ship boarded after being followed. Captain may have surrendered as hostage. Andrea Phillips holds a photo of her husband, Capt. Richard Phillips, on Wednesday at her home in Underhill ...