On Sunday evening, the US Navy was able to control a commercial ship that had been hijacked by gunmen in international waters off the Gulf of Aden.

The head of the Yemeni government Coast Guard Service, Major General Khaled Al-Qamali, announced the liberation of the oil ship that was hijacked by gunmen in the Gulf of Aden, hours ago, and the arrest of the pirates during a landing operation carried out by American forces.

Armed men on fishing boats intercepted early this morning a commercial oil ship carrying the flag of Liberia (owned by an Israeli company) as it passed outside Yemeni territorial waters off the Gulf of Aden.