Russian mercenaries, like the Wagner group, have a poor reputation. Multiple western outlets have reported on their military ineffectiveness, their abysmal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Russia’s army is bogged down in Ukraine, its mercenaries are faring no better in Africa. In late July 2024, mercenaries from ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- The International Criminal Court has been asked to review a confidential legal brief arguing that the Russia-linked Wagner Group has committed war crimes by spreading images of ...

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 ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country. Despite ...

In his famed 16th-century tract The Prince, the Florentine diplomat and author Niccolò Machiavelli warned that mercenaries are “dangerous,” for they are “disunited, ambitious and without discipline, ...

Three men have been convicted of aggravated arson at the Old Bailey this week, after causing serious damage to warehouses in east London in an attack orchestrated by Russia's Wagner Group. The ...

Russia’s most infamous mercenary company, the now-defunct Wagner Group, is notorious for many things: ruthless fighting prowess, brutal war crimes, the failed mutiny by its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin ...

The ambush by Tuareg rebels that killed dozens of Wagner Group troops in Mali will make military juntas in Africa think twice about relying on the Kremlin for protection, the head of a security firm ...

Despite Moscow's push for Africa Corps, the Wagner group remains a key power broker in the Central African Republic due to ...