Somali piracy resurges as U.S.-Iran tensions stretch naval enforcement thin

22 Indian crew members aboard hijacked vessels are at direct risk of harm, ransom demands, or detention by armed pirates.

When great powers turn their gaze toward one another, the spaces between them grow dark. The escalating confrontation between the United States and Iran has drawn naval forces away from the Horn of Africa, and into that absence, an old threat has returned — armed pirates have seized two merchant vessels and their twenty-two Indian crew members within days of each other, reminding the world that maritime order is not a permanent achievement but a continuous act of maintenance. What was once a contained crisis is becoming an open wound, and the sailors caught in the middle are paying the price f

Somali piracy resurges as U.S.-Iran tensions stretch naval enforcement thin

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