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LONDON: Two men have been found guilty of cooperating with the pirates who abducted reporter Michael Scott Moore in Somalia, US prosecutors said on Tuesday. Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed and Abdi Yusuf Hassan, a naturalized American citizen, were convicted on Feb. 24 by a New York federal court jury of hostage-taking, conspiracy, providing material support for acts of terrorism and

Two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years, prosecutors said.

Thirteen people from the terrorist group Al-Shabaab and Daesh were executed by firing squad in Somalias northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland today. The executions were ordered by a mili...

FILE - Michael Scott Moore, author of "The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast," poses for a portrait at Los Angeles Public Library in Los Angeles on June 20, 2018. Federal prosecutors say two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped Moore in 2012 for ransom

Critics of Somalia’s new counterterror law are concerned about the bill’s overly broad definition of a terrorist

Michael Scott Moore was abducted in January 2012 in Somalia while researching a book about piracy.

Two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years, prosecutors said.

Michael Scott Moore, a German-American journalist, was abducted in January 2012 in Somalia

NEW YORK (AP) — Two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years, prosecutors said. Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed and Abdi Yusuf Hassan were convicted by a federal court jury in New York on Feb.

Federal prosecutors say two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years