Wagner Group

The trigger to all this might have been a new policy on license plates in Kosovo, but Ramadan Ilazi, head of research at the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies, says there’s much deeper roots to these tensions.

The World’s Marco Werman speaks with Pierre Vaux, an expert on the Wagner Group, about the significance of the man’s defection and the mercenary group’s role in Russian military and foreign policy. 

Outside powers are propping up the rival generals who have plunged Sudan into chaos in recent days. E

The World’s Marco Werman has more details on the status of the city.

The Malian government has denied that any civilians were harmed in what it called an anti-terrorist military operation against an Islamist extremist group.