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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shortly after America had achieved its independence from Great Britain, the new nation confronted a threat from the Ottoman ...

George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson debated how to handle Barbary pirates, a historical parallel to today's ...

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 ...

They considered us infidels -- and easy targets. They committed atrocious acts against civilians. They provoked war with America. "They are odious for the constant violation of the laws of nations and ...

When my husband and I were producing the pro-West Beirut (Lebanon) Daily Star, one of Yemen’s tyrannical kings was ruling from an elaborate barber’s chair. Its few exports were chiefly coffee, cotton, ...

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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 ...