The former commander of Russian operations on the Ukrainian front, who was a prominent member of the Wagner Group, has been ...

Since arriving in Mali in 2021, Russian Wagner mercenaries have abducted and detained hundreds of civilians in former UN ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says the number of people forcible displaced by violence and persecution around the ...

Assad’s regime on Dec. 8, 2024, after the rebel military operation “Deterrence of Aggression” and the establishment of a ...

Russia uses education in Africa to shape pro-Kremlin elites and spread its influence, HUR says.

Crimea is of great strategic importance to Turkey, and it does not want the peninsula to become an internationally recognized ...

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Russian forces launched a fresh drone assault across Ukraine overnight Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 60 more, ...

After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians reckon with the devastating human toll of the war from hundreds of thousands killed to thousands still missing. A look at the figures that underscore the ...

In an excerpt from her new book, Candace Rondeaux offers a terrifying account of Russia’s “private military company” and its ...

The International Monetary Fund had said it visited Syria for the first time since 2009 as the country scrambles to rebuild after over a decade of conflict ...

Even as it pounds Ukraine, Russia is expanding its military footprint in Africa, delivering sophisticated weaponry to ...