An alleged mercenary has been arrested in London over a plot to kidnap the boss of an Albanian crime gang in revenge for a multimillion-pound drug theft. Latvian national Ainis Balodis, 45, was one of ...

Despite the Wagner Group’s decline, it represented a fundamental change in contemporary warfare. In the last year, Russia terminated the Wagner Group’s decade of battlefield domination almost as ...

Seventeen South African men are trapped in war-torn Donbas in Ukraine, according to the Presidency. The men, aged between 20 and 39, sent a “distress call for assistance to return home” to the South ...

Erik Prince, America’s most infamous mercenary, is back. Mr Prince rose to prominence during the war on terror as the founder of Blackwater, a private military ...

A British judge has handed lengthy jail sentences to the two young ringleaders of a group who carried out arson attacks in the United Kingdom on behalf of the Russian state-funded private military ...

THE MERCENARY, wrote Niccolò Machiavelli, was “useless and dangerous”. He was “unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies”. A private soldier would turn and flee when trouble arrived.

On balance, it's probably a good thing we have little cause to use the word 'fief' anymore. But I do wish I had a few more excuses to deploy it, if only because it's such an enjoyable word to say.

With mercenaries increasingly seen as a go-to solution for some of the world's most devilish security problems, Blackwater founder and Donald Trump donor Erik Prince is reported to be pitching his ...

In his 2023 article, “Mercenary Shocks: What the War in Ukraine Will Eventually Mean for Africa” Raphael Parens discussed what Russia’s mercenary forces in Africa would look like after the war in ...

While most fans are no doubt still waiting for an update on Omniscient Reader’s anime, which was announced around this time last year, Webtoon has many other huge anime adaptations in the works that ...

Teenage Mercenary follows Ijin Yu, a child who survives a deadly plane crash and is forced to become a mercenary to survive. He returns to Korea a decade later and reunites with his family, only to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Webtoon action thriller Teenage Mercenary is being developed as an anime series. Webtoon Entertainment‘s Line Digital Frontier arm, which operates the company’s Japan-based Line Manga and ...