In the first half of the 1600s, Barbary corsairs - pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, authorised by their governments to attack the shipping of Christian countries - ranged all around ...

A strain of sheep brought to Texas by former World War II soldiers who had served near the Barbary Coast of North Africa and saw them as game for hunters has thrived so well in their adoptive home ...

Much of the western coastline of North Africa, from modern-day Morocco to Libya, was known as the "Barbary Coast" at the time — a name derived from the Berber people who lived there; and its ...

Their name reflects this. It refers to the Barbary Coast: a historic name for the region of Africa stretching from Morocco to Libya. Barbary macaques’ natural habitat is generally at high altitude. It ...

The male habitués of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast — so-called “Rangers” — and many of their mercenary female counterparts did their best to live up to that cutthroat tradition.

Despite that designation, they weren’t actually Turks exactly but rather Barbary pirates who, as their name indicates, had their bases in the Barbary Coast (North Africa, encompassing Morocco, Algeria ...

Moreover, just as the pirates were essentially an extension of their North African rulers, so too are the Houthis deeply beholden to Iran for training and materiel support.

The dramatic story of the Maersk Alabama is unfolding off the coast of Somalia, but in a different area from most of the other recent pirate attacks. The attack could mark a significant shift in ...

In the first half of the 1600s, Barbary corsairs - pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, authorised by their governments to attack the shipping of Christian countries - ranged all around ...