In March 2019, President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Commission for Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign ...

Of 33 African countries in which Russian military contractors were active, the majority were Wagner-controlled, according to U.S. government-sponsored research by RAND.

The Russian military has conducted large-scale naval exercises and has issued a chilling nuclear threat to the West, ...

This month, the Russian mercenary outfit Wagner Group announced its total withdrawal from Mali, claiming it had completed its mission after three and a half years of operations in the West African ...

Russia is expanding its military footprint in Africa’s volatile Sahel region as President Vladimir Putin replaces the Wagner ...

Military personnel gather under a Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-160 "Blackjack" is parked on the tarmac at the Waterkloof Air force Base in Centurion, south of Pretoria, northeastern South Africa ...

On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global struggle with its adversary Russia.

Even as it pounds Ukraine, Russia is expanding its military footprint in Africa, delivering sophisticated weaponry to sub-Saharan conflict zones where a Kremlin-controlled armed force is on the rise.