India Steps Up Counter-Piracy Amid Red Sea Tensions

The Kolkata-class stealth guided-missile destroyer INS Kolkata steams in formation while participating in Malabar 2020 in the North Arabian Sea - U.S. Navy

As tensions boil in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, where Iran-backed Yemeni Houthi militants have hijacked and attacked commercial shipping over the past months, the international community has scrambled to address the crisis. While attention has centered on the Houthis, across the sea in Somalia, pirate groups have seen a...