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The United States is providing weapons and ammunition to Somalia's transitional government as it fights al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Thursday.

Reporting from Mogadishu, Somalia, and Nairobi, Kenya -- Islamic insurgents killed Somalia's top security minister and 22 other people today in a suicide car-bomb attack at a hotel frequented by government officials.

Somalia government leaders say they could deal more effectively and cheaply with the piracy problem off their shores if the international community would provide funding.

With foreign warships looming off its shores and a worldwide debate raging over how to defeat piracy, leaders in this seaside Somali capital say there's a solution that could be fast, simple and relatively cheap: the Somalis themselves.

The American captain of a cargo ship held hostage by pirates on a lifeboat off the coast of Somalia was rescued today by Navy SEALs. "We saw the captain was in imminent danger," a U.S. official said. The SEALs shot and killed three of his four captors, the official said. Capt.

Pirates have seized two European-owned tankers off the coast of Somalia in the past day, Nato shipping officials say.

The U.S. Navy and Russian warships seized 26 pirates this week in the seas off the coast of Somalia, even as attacks by pirates increase with the return of good weather.

Somali pirates hijacked a German tanker loaded with liquefied petroleum gas Thursday off the Horn of Africa. The ship's 13-man ...

Ethiopia handed over security duties Tuesday to a Somali force, raising fears that the Horn of Africa country — already fighting an Islamic insurgency and rampant piracy — could collapse into chaos if extremists with alleged al-Qaida links move to seize power.