The U.S. and its allies held territory in eastern Syria as part of their campaign against the terror group. Russia, backing ...

Russia's national guard is integrating former Wagner Group fighters into a volunteer formation. Britain's defense ministry said Rosgvardia will likely deploy these fighters to Ukraine or Africa. It's ...

While Russia’s army is bogged down in Ukraine, its mercenaries are faring no better in Africa. In late July 2024, mercenaries from the the Wagner Group, a Moscow-aligned private military company, ...

A Chechen warlord has added 3,000 former Wagner mercenaries to his growing forces, giving him control over a sizable force inside the Russian army. "One of the Wagner commanders with the call sign ...

The Wagner Group thrust itself into the international spotlight when its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, marched troops toward Moscow late last week. The Wagner Group is a private military company founded ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — At least six Russian mercenaries were killed in an attack by an al-Qaida-linked group in central Mali, according to a statement by the extremists on its media platform. The group ...

The Associated Press has spoken to more than 30 refugees from Mali who say they witnessed beheadings, rapes and other abuses ...

Russia is deploying former Wagner mercenaries near the Donetsk town of Avdiivka, which was recently seized by Moscow's forces, according to Ukrainian intelligence, which said they are taking the same ...

Ukraine says it aided rebels in Mali to defeat Russian Wagner Group mercenaries. The battle shows a new front for Ukraine in countering Russia — this time, in Africa. Mali's junta, propped up by ...

The mayor’s office in the southern Russian city of Volgograd announced on January 17 that a stretch of road in the city will be named after Aleksei Nagin, a former convict who joined the notorious ...

Two more former convicts recruited by the Wagner mercenary group have been handed lengthy prison terms for murders in Siberia. A court in the Siberian region of Khakassia on September 9 sentenced a ...