The police force from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, a base for many pirate gangs, said it was on high alert and prepared to participate in an operation against the pirates holding the ...

But global security firm EOS Risk Group cited the Puntland Maritime Police Force as saying the ship had been hijacked “near the Garmaal Area within Somali territorial waters” and a report ...

The UAE has conducted airstrikes too, likely from the large UAE-funded Puntland Maritime Police Force headquarters base in the major port city of Bosaso. The Puntland government has claimed that ...

the Puntland region's police force said, two days after Indian commandos rescued another cargo vessel held by pirates. The MV Abdullah was hijacked off the coast of Somalia last week, the latest of ...

Somalia's maritime police force on Thursday intensified patrols ... The commander of the maritime force in the semiautonomous region of Puntland, Abdullahi Mohamed Ahmed, told The Associated ...

The Puntland Maritime Police Force, a security force based in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in north-eastern Somalia, curbed piracy in Somali waters effectively after its formation in 2010.

Sources told Crisis Group that the ruling Kaah party has a firm grip on the Puntland Maritime Police Force. The two opposition parties that were most staunchly opposed to changing the electoral ...

But the pirates suffered a reversal of fortunes when international navies began to patrol the seas off Somalia and these days the Puntland Maritime Police Force has a base in Eyl. Most people in ...

But it was reported that a soldier belonging to the Duufaan unit of the Dervish Force had died while ... Gen Aydid Ahmed, Puntland’s deputy police commissioner, warned that “fleeing ISIS ...

The girl was now back with her family, Puntland's police force told the BBC. Additionally, an investigation into the case has been launched, government officials have said. Child marriage remains ...