Shortly after America had achieved its independence from Great Britain, the new nation confronted a threat from the Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Beginning in 1784, raiders from ...

We have met the new Barbary pirates. And they are us. We fought twin wars against the original Barbary pirates in the early 1800s, only to become their look-a-like. On Dec. 10, the United States ...

Some Republican leaders have compared the war in Iraq with President Thomas Jefferson's historic confrontation with the Barbary pirates. But the whole story does not necessarily serve the Republican ...

Experts warn that barbarities like the 1985 hijacking of liner Achille Lauro or the more recent raids by Somali pirates could be recreated throughout the Mediterranean, which is one of the world’s ...

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This is the full text of the chain email received by PolitiFact about the Barbary pirates and Islam. To read our fact check of this email -- which we rated False ...

The seas are, so to speak, flooded with the pirates. Not the Barbary Pirates who roamed the Mediterranean 200 years ago and who are described by Michael Oren in his masterful book, Power, Faith and ...

The fledgling United States Marine Corps proved its dauntless courage with a "miracle" victory in the Battle of Derna on the shores of Tripoli in North Africa on this day in history, April 27, 1805.