The Indian navy has said that one of its warships in the Gulf of Aden has destroyed a ship belonging to pirates operating off the coast of Somalia.
The INS Tabar opened fire on a pirate “mother ship” after it came under attack, a government statement said.
There has been a surge in piracy incidents off Somalia.
The Saudi-owned Sirius Star supertanker is currently anchored off the Somali coast after the vessel and its 25 crew were seized by pirates.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A major Norwegian shipping group on Tuesday ordered its more than 90 tankers to sail around Africa rather than use the Suez Canal after Somali pirates seized a Saudi supertanker carrying $100 million in crude.
The U.S. and other naval forces decided against intervening in the seizure of the supertanker. The pirates captured an Iranian cargo ship Tuesday, the seventh vessel seized in 12 days.

In what may be their most brazen attack yet, Somali pirates hijacked a Saudi supertanker stocked with oil Saturday, the US Navy said today.
The incident raises questions about the ability of international efforts to thoroughly monitor the dangerous waters off Somalia’s coast, where such attacks have increased by 75 percent this year. Saturday’s seizure is believed to be the biggest ship pirates have nabbed, and the hijacking occurred farther off the coast of Africa than pirates have roamed thus far. Now, “even the world’s largest vessels are vulnerable,” reports the

Heavily armed Somali gunmen stormed across the Kenyan border on Monday and kidnapped two Italian nuns from a remote town in northeastern Kenya, witnesses and local authorities said.
The attackers struck before dawn and then raced back across the border into lawless S

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Suicide bombers struck a U.N. compound, the Ethiopian consulate and three other targets in northern Somalia Wednesday, killing at least 22 people in attacks that coincided with international talks in neighboring Kenya about Somalia’s political crisis.
Three of the five bombings hit the breakaway republic of Somaliland, one of them exploding at the palace of the regional president. Bombers also simultaneously attacked two intelligence facilities in the semiautonomous northern region of Puntland. All the attacks were in the morning.

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed is a veteran Somali politician, and the current transitional President of Somalia.

NAIROBI, – Somalia’s government signed a ceasefire agreement with some opposition figures on Sunday, meeting an opposition demand by giving a date for the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces backing the interim administration.
More then 10,000 people have been killed and 1 million displaced in fighting since early last year, pitting President Abdullahi Yusuf’s government and allied Ethiopian forces against Islamist rebels — mainly the al Shabaab militia, listed by Washington as a terrorist group.