Nov. 13 2013, Published 7:14 a.m. ET "It would take pages to write what Muse said really happened with the hijacking," Matsumunyane explains. "His version is very much different than the Captain ...

As Captain Phillips continues to rack in millions worldwide, there is one player in the story who's not basking in the spotlight. Abduwali Muse, the only surviving Somali pirate involved with the 2009 ...

Abdulwali Muse, accused of hijacking the Maersk Alabama and taking its captain, Richard Phillips, hostage, is led into a federal building in New YorkEric Thayer / Reuters The reason Abdulwali Muse ...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged alleged Somali pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse with hijacking two more ships in addition to the Maersk Alabama last spring in a superseding indictment ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Somali teenager accused of holding hostage a U.S. ship captain in the Indian Ocean after an attempted hijacking will be tried as an adult in New York on piracy charges, a U.S.

With Somali pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse set to stand trial as an adult for the hijacking a U.S. container ship and holding its captain hostage for days, his mother is again begging for some ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A bid for freedom by a convicted Somali pirate depicted in a Hollywood movie has been scuttled by a federal appellate court in Chicago, which rejected his argument that he was just 16 ...

The leader of the band of pirates who hijacked the Maersk Alabama in March of 2009, then held its captain hostage for four days, was sentenced to 33 years and 9 months in prison today. This one rare ...

The mother of a Somali pirate who pleaded guilty to charges of hijacking a U.S.-flagged ship and kidnapping its captain appealed to President Barack Obama on Wednesday to pardon her son and grant him ...