Two centuries after the Barbary Wars, America is once again fighting a war overseas to protect its shipping, as well as that ...

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This section has some big stories to tell, including the scourge of Barbary pirates, the bombardment of Algiers, and an unlikely Anglo-Chinese fleet that saw off Asian pirates in the mid-19th century.

as long as it took the Jefferson and Madison administrations to defeat the Barbary Pirates. At some point, however, Trump may find that just as his predecessors were only able to defeat the ...

The Biden administration’s halting and intermittent efforts to attack Houthi targets proved to be no more successful than the various American attempts to negotiate a ransom arrangement with the ...