Russia has stepped up its logistic support for private military contractor Wagner Group in Libya with some 338 military cargo flights from Syria in the nine months to July 31 to aid Wagner fighters ...

Russia has rapidly expanded its military presence in Libya, an investigation has found, sparking alarm at a time of heightened tensions between Moscow and the West amid the war in Ukraine. Citing ...

Mercenaries from the Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary organization seen as being close to Vladimir Putin, are fighting in Libya, UN diplomats said Wednesday, citing an experts' report on the ...

In May 2023, 15 months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Yevgeniy Prigozhin had had enough. The founder of the Wagner Group, a mercenary outfit often utilized by President Vladimir ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - A Russian drive to recruit Syrians to fight in Libya for militia leader Khalifa Haftar accelerated in May when hundreds of mercenaries were signed up, five Syrian opposition sources and a ...

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 ...

But in other parts of Africa the PMCs have been brought under direct control of the Russian government and they aren't going anywhere.

The short-lived revolt led by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin caused analysts far and wide to speculate about the future of the Wagner Group in Africa, arguing that its role on the continent is now in ...

The mercenary group has been active in Mali for several years. It was hired by the leaders of the military junta who seized control of the country in a 2020 coup. Malian soldiers and their hired ...

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 ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- 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 Wagner's ...