Before his 2023 death in a suspicious plane crash, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin had built a sprawling, ...

And Wagner would be at the forefront. The mercenary group was launched, in part, due to the perceived poor performance of some Russian forces during the invasion. From the very beginning ...

Thousands have protested plans of Central African Republic's president to run for a third term with the backing of ...

When Mali’s junta extended the invitation to Wagner — it always said its contract was with the Russian state, not the Kremlin-linked mercenary group — violence by Islamist extremists was on ...

Now, an urgent manhunt is underway to try find the schoolgirl, with authorities concentrating their efforts in the nearby Russian ... private mercenary group known as Wagner.

Russia is aiding military governments in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to bolster a 5,000-strong force against jihadist ...

As Western powers retreat from the Sahel, Russian mercenaries are using social media, influencers and crowdfunding to expand ...

Voislav Torden, of Russian far-right group Rusich, is found guilty of charges relating to an ambush which killed 22.

A Russian man was jailed for life by a Finnish court on Friday for war crimes committed in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, where his paramilitary group was found to have killed an injured soldier.

The country is one of the first in which the Wagner mercnaries established operations with the pledge of fighting rebel groups and restoring peace. Wagner forces have served as personal bodyguards ...

Central African Republic opposition parties demonstrate in the streets of Bangui Friday, April 4, 2025, to protest the government and its use of Wagner mercenaries. (AP Photo/ Jean Fernand Koena ...