The Barbary pirates of North Africa attacked the coastal northern Mediterranean launching attacks against Britain, France, Italy and Sicily. In their feverish search for slaves a few pirates even went ...

The Houthis are today’s Barbary Pirates. The Houthis only differ from their predecessors in that they have not yet attempted to seize American captives for ransom.

For centuriesthe fat greasy rulers of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli had maintained s gang rule over all Mediterranean shipping. Rather than provoke these fierce Barbary pirates the maritime ...

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean is populated by so many remarkable characters — Jewish and otherwise — that picking a favorite is taxing. But a strong candidate is Samuel Palache, described by ...

Matthew Stevenson is the author of many books, including Reading the Rails, Appalachia Spring, and The Revolution as a Dinner Party, about China throughout its turbulent twentieth century.

Steven Johnson’s new nonfiction book tells the amazing story of Henry Every, whose 17th century exploits still echo in our world. Book review: Sail with real pirates in ‘Enemy of All Mankind’ ...

Although history remembers them as outlaws, the Barbary pirates were in fact autonomous regions — Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis — within the Ottoman Empire, joined by an independent nation, Morocco.

Two centuries after the Barbary Wars, America is once again fighting a war overseas to protect its shipping, as well as that of its allies and friends. Opinion - The Houthis are the new Barbary ...

The Houthis are today’s Barbary Pirates. The Houthis only differ from their predecessors in that they have not yet attempted to seize American captives for ransom.