Though the recent events in Mali are not analogous with that, Wagner’s abandonment of Mozambique may weigh on the minds of Mali’s junta leaders following the group’s latest setback.

The Mali defeat raises doubts over whether Moscow, which has admitted funding Wagner and has absorbed many of its fighters into a defense ministry force, will do better than Western and U.N ...

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 ...

Mali's northern Tuareg rebels said they had killed and injured dozens of soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border, after the army said it had lost two ...

MOSCOW, Aug 4 (Reuters) - In the shadow of the Kremlin, more than 70 Russians paid homage on Sunday to Wagner fighters killed in a major battle with Mali rebels and Islamist fighters, one of the ...

Residents of the Sahel region that includes Mali say Russia’s presence doesn’t appear to have changed since Wagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died in a suspicious plane crash last year.

The Wagner Group has reportedly been present in Mali since the military took power in 2021 and is also linked to other West African countries such as Burkina Faso and Niger, where it is said to ...

Russian-backed Wagner mercenary group has been a key actor in the West African country of Mali for more than two years. The group usually says very little about its controversial operations there.

DAKAR, Senegal — The Russian mercenary group known as Wagner is helping government forces in central and northern Mali carry out raids and drone strikes that have killed scores of civilians ...

In a statement over the weekend, al-Qaida asserted that 50 Wagner fighters were killed in its attack meant to “avenge the massacres committed in the center and north” of Mali in the yearslong ...

In Mali Wagner has for almost two years been fighting jihadists alongside the ruling junta’s forces. Satellite imagery shows that its base has expanded since Prigozhin’s failed putsch.

Wagner forces were invited to Mali by the junta that took power in 2021. The junta had a falling out with French forces who had failed to stem the stream of attacks by Islamic extremists.