A new book delves deep into the rise and fall of the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group and its close ties to Vladimir Putin.

The following is the May 28, 2025 Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Russian Military Performance and Outlook.

Putin’s Expeditionary Corps operates in Sudan ... just south of Nigeria. Russia is not acting alone. Whereas Putin’s Afrika Korps act as the military boot, China’s Belt and Road Initiative ...

The Kremlin is moving its pieces in the Sahel. A month ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov chaired a conference in ...

November 24, 2024: For over a year Ukraine has been supporting rebel groups in Africa that are fighting members of the Russian Afrika Corps. Russia is currently supporting rebel or government forces ...

“This latest development reflects Russia’s deepening involvement ... in its place is the aptly named, Africa Corps, reminiscent of Germany’s Afrika Korps, which plundered the continent ...

Russia has effectively replaced France and the US as an alternative security partner and political patron for the Sahelian ...

Beacháin’s book has merits but at times reads more like a polemic than balanced research; Rondeaux’s more nuanced work is a ...

Having redeployed some soldiers previously stationed in Syria to Libya, the Russian army and its military-political entity Africa Corps are increasing their presence further south. Using eyewitness ...

using a decoy to outmaneuver and outwit a far larger and better-equipped Russian force. British troops misled Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein with a fake ...