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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though often overlooked, the Barbary pirates played a huge role in U.S. and world history. Did you know that the United States’ first foreign war was with pirates? After the U.S. declared independence ...

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, ...