Two centuries after the Barbary Wars, America is once again fighting a war overseas to protect its shipping, as well as that ...

The U.S. Navy got started twice. The first time was on October 13, 1775, when the Continental Congress passed a resolution ...

This is the full text of the chain email received by PolitiFact about the Barbary pirates and Islam ... and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim ...

Beginning in 1784, raiders from these statelets along the Barbary coast, known as the Barbary Pirates, would attack American merchant shipping, capturing sailors for whom they initially extorted ...