Wagner Group
Reported death of Wagner Group leader 'strengthens Putin's hold on power,' analyst says
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.
Wagner mutiny leads to questions about Russia’s military leadership
Wagner’s mutiny punctured Putin’s ‘strongman’ image and exposed cracks in his rule
A conversation with a former member of Wagner: ‘They were like little kings or czars’
Russia claims it controls Bakhmut, again
The World's Marco Werman has more details on the status of the city.
Wagner Group blamed for civilian slaughter in Mali
The Malian government has denied that any civilians were harmed in what it called an anti-terrorist military operation against an Islamist extremist group.
In Sudan, global powers fuel conflict
Outside powers are propping up the rival generals who have plunged Sudan into chaos in recent days. E
Wagner mercenary group recruits Africans held in Russian prisons
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.
A man claiming to be a Russian military commander defects to Norway
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.
Rising ethnic tensions in Kosovo
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.
Russian Wagner mercenary group update
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.
Russia's private army
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.