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 ...

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 ...

Russia's most powerful mercenary, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was on board a plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday evening, leaving no survivors, Russian authorities say. It comes two months to the ...

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, ...

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 ...

With the gaze of much of the world fixed on the carnage unfolding in Gaza, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin continues to expand his country’s reach in Africa. Russia, in the form of the private ...

The Wagner Group has earned over $2.5 billion from illicit gold mining since the invasion of Ukraine, according to a report by the World Gold Council. The report, authored by former UK Deputy Prime ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in August 2023, two ...