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UK team helps free Iranian hostages from Somali pirates

UK team helps free Iranian hostages from Somali pirates

  • The deal for the sailors’ release involved a ransom payment of $180,000 — brokered by the UK-based Hostage Support Partnership
  • It ends the longest-running maritime hostage situation in the region to date, with the three men having spent five-and-a-half years in captivity
By Arab News ·
Special Saudi Arabia’s role in banishing piracy from regional waters

Saudi Arabia’s role in banishing piracy from regional waters

By Jennifer Bell ·
Somali pirates caught at sea, transferred to Seychelles

Somali pirates caught at sea, transferred to Seychelles

By AFP ·

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