Young men lured by high salaries and Russian citizenship to enlist for a year are now trapped on front lines of war ...

The junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the ...

Soldiers are different. They are servants of the state. In well-governed countries, they are bound by discipline, the rule of ...

The Biden administration takes action against Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing Sudan’s leaders of “blatant disregard of ...

The Azawad Liberation Front, or FLA, a coalition of separatist armed groups in Mali's predominately Tuareg north, said on X ...

David Lammy used to be an arch-critic of Donald Trump. Can he deal with the new Administration and reset the U.K.’s ...

Derrick Ngamana wanted a better future for his family, his brother said. So he joined Russia's military fighting Ukraine in exchange for $4,200. Then his family in the Central African Republic got a ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the ...

Derrick Ngamana, a 32-year-old from the Central African Republic (CAR), has been confirmed as the first African mercenary to ...

Vladimir Putin is still struggling to re-assert himself in the Middle East after the fall of his ally Bashar al-Assad’s ...

More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no ...