On a Friday in June, the government of Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa about the size of the Northern Territory, made a surprising request. They wanted the roughly 13,000 UN peacekeepers ...

Dramatic footage of a private plane plunging to the ground has emerged from Russia overnight. The plane was reportedly carrying 10 people, among them Wagner group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner ...

On July 27 the primarily Tuareg irredentist armed group (CSP) and al-Qaeda-linked jihadists (JNIM) ambushed a Wagner Group convoy near Tinzaoutene in northern Mali, which the CSP claimed killed 84 ...

I was in need of some Dutch courage. As the super-strength lager trickled down my throat, I pressed the record button on my phone and looked nervously around me. The bar in downtown Bangui was doing a ...

The Wagner mercenary group reported on Monday that its fighters, alongside Malian soldiers, suffered casualties during intense clashes with Tuareg rebels near Mali's border with Algeria. Despite ...

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, ...

Vladimir Putin denies they exist. But a shadowy group of highly-trained individuals is doing his dirty work in Ukraine and footage proves it. There, the Wagner Group refines its craft and waits to be ...

Whenever the music of Richard Wagner is performed, the composer’s famously antisemitic views come back into sharper focus. With a harrowing conflict in the Middle East and rising antisemitism ...

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