U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain hostage after seeing that one of the pirates "had an AK-47 leveled at the captain's back," a military official said ...

Somali pirates have seized more than 50 ships over ... The 17,000-ton container vessel Maersk Alabama was seized off the coast of Somalia's northern Puntland region, about 450 kilometers southeast ...

Based on a true story, the US container ship Maersk Alabama is hijacked by Somali pirates, led by Abduwali Muse (Barkhad Abdi), on the way to Kenya. The captain and crew soon find themselves at ...