Iran conflict fuels Somali piracy resurgence, threatening global shipping

Off the Horn of Africa, waters that had grown quiet are turning dangerous again — not by accident, but by consequence. The cascading instability of a major Middle East conflict has reopened a security vacuum that international naval cooperation had spent a decade closing, and Somali pirates, embedded in sophisticated transnational networks, have moved swiftly into the space. More than 90 seafarers now sit hostage aboard seized vessels, their fates entangled in a crisis whose origins lie far beyond the waters where they sail. What appears local is, in truth, a symptom of a world in which distan