After a brief lull, pirates hijacked a Greek-owned oil tanker in the Arabian Sea with a crew of 15, mostly Indians and Filipinos.

The Liberian-flagged Smyrni, carrying 135,000 tonnes of oil, was sei

A Pakistan International Airlines flight on Friday made an emergency landing at the Karachi airport after a passenger allegedly threatened to hijack the aircraft.

PIA flight PK-586, which was fl

An Italian vessel captured by Somali pirates off the coast of Oman in December with 18 crew members, including seven Indians, has been released.

M. T. Enrico Ievoli, hijacked on December 27, has bee

A Bolivian cargo ship, owned by an Iranian firm was on Tuesday hijacked, apparently by Somalian pirates in the territorial waters off Maldives, officials said on Tuesday, even as Maldivian forces have

Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi

Two youths from Kerala are suspected to be among the 22 sailors held captive by Somalian pirates on board a UAE chemical oil tanker, MT Royal Grace, on March 2.

The two are Dipin Devis, 22, of Eran

A lone hijacker claiming to have a bomb has hijacked a ferry off the western port city of Izmit with some 20 passengers on board on Saturday, an official said.

Ibrahim Karaosmanoglu, mayor for Izmit

Dubai: Pirates on Wednesday seized a supertanker off the coast of Oman bound for the United States carrying a crew of 25 and a load of more than 1.9 million barrels of oil, officials said.

"We cannot

A disgruntled ex-policeman armed with an assault rifle hijacked a bus carrying more than 20 Hong Kong tourists including children in the Philippine capital on Monday, police said.

The gunman released

A hijack threat halted an American Airlines flight just before takeoff, leaving the New York-bound jet sitting on the tarmac for several hours while it was searched and passengers were removed for ext