Many questions remain a day after the reported death of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Kimberly Marten, who has studied the Wagner Group and testified about it on Capitol Hill. She is also a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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.
Outside powers are propping up the rival generals who have plunged Sudan into chaos in recent days. E
In recent months, reports have emerged that at least two men, one from Zambia and another from Tanzania, were killed while fighting for the Wagner group in Ukraine. Wagner reportedly recruited the men from Russian prisons, promising them amnesty.
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.
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.
Host Marco Werman speaks with Michael Weiss, the news director with the online publication New Lines magazine, where he recently wrote an investigative report about the Wagner Group.
A clear chain of command that follows rules of war. These are fundamental principles in a modern military. But increasingly, traditional armies are getting competition for another kind of fighting force — mercenaries.