On 6 June 2025, private military company Wagner announced they would be withdrawing from Mali. "Mission accomplished”, declared the mercenary group via ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since 2021, Russian Wagner mercenaries have detained, tortured, and forcibly disappeared hundreds of civilians in secret prisons ...

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 ...

Russia’s most infamous mercenary company, the now-defunct Wagner Group, is notorious for many things: ruthless fighting prowess, brutal war crimes, the failed mutiny by its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin ...

When Mali’s junta invited Russian mercenaries into Bamako in late 2021, officials promised a decisive break from years of frustration with France and the UN. They insisted the Wagner Group would turn ...