An RFE/RL investigation reveals details about the role of Cuban mercenaries fighting in Russia's war against Ukraine, with ...

Soldiers from the Wagner Group have helped Vladimir Putin advance his aim of restoring Russian power in Africa. But on the ...

Russia is expanding its influence in Africa as democracy wanes, with military strongmen carrying out coups and the United ...

ShareRussian mercenaries have been accused of executing women and children in Mali where they are fighting for the government ...

As many Africans sour on the West, a new generation of military officers are seizing power, vowing to build strong and ...

The Russian army loses more soldiers on the battlefield than it recruits on contract, but it still relies on mercenaries and ...

Mali, led by a military junta, has for more than a decade battled jihadist groups allied to Islamic State and al Qaeda while grappling with a much longer history of Tuareg-led rebellion in the north.

A Tuareg-led rebel alliance in northern Mali accuses Malian soldiers and Russian Wagner mercenaries of killing 24 civilians on their route to Algeria. The Azawad Liberation Front reports additional ...

Piecing together the prior history that is alluded to early in Midnight Black, the reader learns that Courtland Gentry, aka the Gray Man, aka “6,” aka “Violator,” is a former CIA officer who had ...

DONETSK, February 18. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military has deployed a group of Polish mercenaries to the frontline near the settlement of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), a source ...

Around 20 people were killed on Monday when the vehicles they were travelling in came under attack, with local sources saying ...

African countries are concerned that, following the war in Ukraine, Russia may bolster its mercenary forces with criminals, ...