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A tycoon and a Putin ally, he built a paramilitary force that fought by Russia's side even as he castigated its military leaders. He is believed to have died at [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton RIGA, Latvia - Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin was in Russia on Thursday, according to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, raising further questions about the [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton RIGA, Latvia - Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin was in Russia on Thursday, according to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, raising further questions about the [...]

In the week since Yevgeny V. Prigozhin's orchestrated a mutiny against the Russian military leadership, the Kremlin has moved to take control of his Wagner mercenaries in Russia and farther [...]

Yevgeny Prigozhin's revolt showed the possibility of a Russia after Vladimir Putin -- and how pro-democracy forces may not be the ones that take over. For a millisecond, it seemed [...]

Xi Jinping needs Vladimir Putin to remain in power, and Russia to maintain stability, to help uphold the countries' shared interests and to keep challenging the United States. Just three [...]

Byline: John Bacon, USA TODAY Russia's Vladimir Putin is losing the war in Ukraine and has become 'a bit of a pariah around the world,' President Joe Biden said Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Ned Temko Columnist Abstract: Russian President Vladimir Putin weathered the threat to his power last weekend, but international allies may be wondering now about his reliability. The coup, if [...]

Belarus's president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, is trying to get our attention. He is preening himself on the global stage, making the rounds in the media to take credit for brokering an [...]

Amid a flagging war effort, a popular commander turned his troops toward Russia's own capital, undermining the government. It happened last weekend -- and in 1917. As Russian soldiers braced [...]

Byline: Liz Sly Over the past decade, President Vladimir Putin has won friends and admirers worldwide as the embodiment of a strongman, using military interventions in the Middle East and [...]

Byline: Josh Meyer, USA TODAY An mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin came to a swift end Saturday, but it raised new questions about his grip on power and is [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon and Mary Ilyushina RIGA, Latvia - Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed his nation Monday for the first time since the weekend mutiny by Wagner mercenaries, saying he [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon RIGA, Latvia - Russia's embattled military leadership tried to demonstrate control on Monday after the bruising, chaotic mutiny by Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenary group, airing [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff A fast-moving crisis unfolded in Russia on Saturday as Vladimir Putin faced an apparent insurrection from a former ally, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, and the Russian mercenary fighters [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette THIAROYE, Senegal - Before the old man dies, he yearns to see his father's bones. It's the only way to clear his family's name, he said, and [...]

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- The Ivory Coast government sent a convoy of elite forces to the city of Bouaké on Sunday in an effort to quell a three-day military mutiny [...]

1912 Convicts Mutiny at Prison PARIS -- Troops had to be called out and were compelled to make use of their rifles to quell a mutiny at Rochefort prison yesterday [...]

A mutiny by a group of soldiers loyal to Papua New Guinea's ousted leader, Sir Michael Somare, has failed, the country's prime minister told reporters late Thursday. The announcement comes [...]

SYDNEY -- A group of soldiers in Papua New Guinea mutinied early Thursday, replacing the chief of the armed forces in an apparently bloodless raid on the nation's military headquarters [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Pro-democracy revolutions often start rolling only when individual soldiers refuse orders to shoot unarmed civilians. Those moments of conscience, in which a soldier's reverence for [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK AFRICA JOHANNESBURG -- Mutinous soldiers have seized power in Niger after capturing the President and cabinet in a violent coup, spiriting them away to an unknown location [...]

Brigadier Oupa Gqozo stepped down as leader of the government of the South African homeland of the Ciskei on Mar 22, 1994, following a mutiny by police during which senior officers were taken hostage and arms were snatched from a local arsenal. Administrators being sent in by the transitional executive council will govern the Ciskei until the election in Apr 1994. Meanwhile Inkatha produced a document which it claimed was a blueprint of an ANC plot to overthrow the administration of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi in the homeland of KwaZulu. There is also growing political violence in Natal.

After seizing control of a luxury apartment for 20 hours and following tense negotiations with government representatives, 295 soldiers, including 70 officers from the Philippine military, agreed to peacefully end [...]