PN warships detachment including frigate “Admiral Panteleev,” a rescue tag, tankers “Irkut” and “Izhora” left Vladivostok for the Horn of Africa where they are to participate in the international mission on safeguarding from the Somali corsairs.

Despite its approval for foreign intervention to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen has recently accused international forces of aiding pirates to attack ships off the cost of Somalia

On this day, 04 April 1968: The American black civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King, has been assassinated.

It’s time, as a start, to stop calling our expanding war in Central and South Asia “the Afghan War” or “the Afghanistan War.” If Obama’s special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke doesn’t want to, why should we?

When the Israelis’ controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks between Israel and Syria.

The summit agenda will include the Palestinian issue, the situation in Sudan and the international criminal court’s arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir, and the conditions in Iraq and Somalia.

At least one person was killed and three were wounded in two explosions that hit the relatively quiet Puntland region in northeastern Somalia on Saturday.

Somalia’s hardline Islamists on Sunday welcomed international aid groups to regions under their control to assist thousands of hunger-stricken people