Instead, they did it for cash. The pair were arsonists for hire - referred to as "road men" in court - working indirectly for the Wagner Group, the mercenary group now controlled by the Russian state.

Fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence in Africa have surged by nearly 60 percent since 2021, though this is marked by widely varying regional threat trajectories, actors, and ...

Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced ...

Designated a terrorist organisation by the UK, the Wagner Group is using its own "playbook" to try to "recruit young British men to carry out sabotage and arson attacks against targets in the UK ...

Earl came into contact with the Wagner Group on secure messaging app Telegram, the court heard, where he “expressed a willingness to undertake ‘missions’ of which the Leyton arson attack was ...

Prosecutors said the 20 March 2024 attack was planned by agents of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, acting on behalf of Russian military intelligence.

Three men have been found guilty of an arson attack on a warehouse linked to Ukraine on behalf of the Wagner Group. About £1m of damage was caused by the blaze at an industrial unit in Leyton ...

Three men have been found guilty of an arson attack on a London warehouse carried out on behalf of the Russian mercenary group Wagner.

Mali's armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men since January 2025. Human Rights Watch (HRW) ...

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has confirmed that border guards detained a former Wagner Group fighter in June after he requested asylum in Finland.

Five men who effectively became Putin’s foot soldiers against Ukraine with an arson attack on a London warehouse are facing jail. Around £1 million of damage was caused in the blaze on an ...

Around £1m worth of damage was caused in the arson attack on an industrial unit in Leyton, east London, last year.