Russian President Vladimir Putin has laid out an ultimatum, demanding that Ukraine dissolve military formations. Kyiv ...

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The recent mutiny by Wagner has left several unanswered questions. Among them: What about the role of private military groups in general? The Wagner Private Military Company, its formal name, is ...

Since the launch of the Belt and Road initiative in 2013, Chinese private military companies envisioned working with U.S. firms like Blackwater. They sought to replicate Blackwater’s role in Iraq, ...

The leader of Russia’s Wagner private military company said Sunday that his group would not comply with an order that would require it to sign a formal contract with Russia’s defense ministry ...

Private military companies have a controversial but important role to play in global security. These contractors are independent businesses that offer specialized military services related to war ...

Lawmakers told military officials Wednesday to approach ongoing issues with aging barracks with privatization and accountability.

And in 2020, he pitched a $10 billion plan for buying into Ukraine’s military industrial complex and hiring Ukraine’s combat veterans into a private military company.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the ally of President Vladimir Putin who leads Chechnya, said on Sunday that he one day planned to set up his own private military company in the style of Yevgeny Prigozhin's ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to András Rácz of the German Council on Foreign Relations, about the Russian-allied paramilitary organization Wagner Group, which is operating in Ukraine.

In describing the Wagner Private Military Company forces fighting in Ukraine, some Western commentators have used the term “mercenaries,” while others have preferred “penal battalions.” Neither term ...