Russian ads seek recruits with good physical fitness who can go on "business trips" to Ukraine or Syria for about three months.

Ukrainian special forces are attacking Russian mercenaries and positions in Syria, according to the Kyiv Post, fighting alongside rebel forces.

Show more Show less Iraqi Russian recruit Mohammed Iman, 24, in Ukraine. He is now missing and thought dead A Russian army recruitment billboard offering $64,200 to sign up for a year Zeinab Jabbar, ...

Kyiv says Cuba is "at the very top" of countries supplying thousands of foreign mercenaries to Russia. Ukrainian intelligence said the average Cuban mercenary is 35 years old and is paid $2,000 a ...

When armed factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last December, many observers believed that Russia’s days in Syria were numbered. For decades, ...

Since last fall, more than 12,000 North Koreans have reportedly been deployed to fight with the Russian army in Ukraine. Recently, Ukraine accused the Kremlin of recruiting foreign fighters from ...

Early in the war, when Moscow was propping up former president Bashar al-Assad's rule in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he wanted to recruit 16,000 fighters from the Middle East, with ...

AFP spoke to relatives of four men from impoverished families who travelled to Russia to join its army, three of whom are officially missing. Smiling broadly and clad in military fatigues, young Iraqi ...

BAGHDAD: Smiling broadly and clad in military fatigues, young Iraqi Mohammed Imad’s last TikTok post was in a field carved up with heavy vehicle tracks in what appeared to be Ukraine. Smoke was rising ...