When Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in an August 2023 plane crash, many analysts said his death could mark the end of the Wagner Group, the private military company he co-founded ...

The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria following a lightning rebel offensive in November has shaken Assad-ally ...

With Russia's war on Ukraine threatening to spread, and violence in the Middle East escalating, Donald Trump has raised the ...

Malian armed forces and the Russia-backed Wagner Group deliberately killed at least 32 civilians, including seven in a drone strike, kidnapped four others, and burned at least 100 homes in towns ...

In countries like Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, where military regimes have expelled French forces, anti-French rhetoric has become a rallying cry for new alliances with Russia and other powers.

Russia is striving to gain complete dominance over West Africa's Sahel region, and already has close ties to two of Chad's neighbours - Niger, and the Central Africa Republic (CAR), the country where ...

VOA Russian spoke to U.S. and Russian researchers who have written books about the Wagner Group in the past year, and they tell a story of the military group now narrowly focused only on certain ...

Russian hockey player Maksim Sergeyev, who played for the Polish hockey club Zagłębie Sosnowiec since 2021, has been ...

A bronze statue of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late leader of Russia's Wagner paramilitary mercenary group, has been erected in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). The monument to ...

A monument in honour of the late leader of Russia’s mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been unveiled in the Central African Republic (CAR). The statue of Prigozhin and his right-hand man ...

A monument in honour of the late leader of Russia’s mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been unveiled in the Central African Republic (CAR). The statue of Prigozhin and his right-hand ...