Mercenaries

A mercenary, sometimes known as a soldier of fortune, is an individual who takes part in military conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather than for political interests. Beginning in the 20th century, mercenaries have increasingly come to be seen as less entitled to protections by rules of war than non-mercenaries. Indeed, the Geneva Conventions declare that mercenaries are not recognized as legitimate combatants and do not have to be granted the same legal protections as …

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MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 18 April 2024 English

Thus, Influence Operations refer to the use of non-military means of psychological, technological, economic and political influence and subversion to undermine the security and governance of a targeted country. [...] …

extremism and terrorism. The influx of radical Arab mercenaries, helped by the Pakistan military and ISI fighting


IPI: International Peace Institute · 17 April 2024 English

UN Tools for Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: An Analysis of Listings and Sanctions Processes APRIL 2024 UN Tools for Addressing Conflict- Related Sexual Violence: An Analysis of Listings and Sanctions …

SRSG-SVC Relate to Sanctions implication of Wagner mercenaries in abuses, including violence against women.46


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 15 April 2024 English

President Volodymyr Zelensky is continuing his large-scale purge of the Ukrainian leadership in an attempt to achieve greater cohesion and efficiency. The Ukrainian president is preparing for a double crisis …

disrupting an operation in 2020 to capture a group of mercenaries from Russia’s infamous Wagner private military


MEI: Middle East Institute · 9 April 2024 English

Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, the group has launched hundreds of rockets and missiles against international shipping in the Red Sea and at the Israeli …

provided by Iran, the Houthis pay for experienced mercenaries from Russia and North Korea to professionalize designation. “outposts” consist of dozens of Yemeni mercenaries hired by Hezbollah and Iran for $200 per month


FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 5 April 2024 English

Bottom Line The Nigerien junta has called on US military units to pull out of the country. Meanwhile, Niger appears to be pivoting toward Russia, following the path of its …

ongoing war and the Prigozhin mutiny, Moscow’s mercenaries have not gone anywhere. In addition, the Russian not to mention the violence in�icted by the mercenaries themselves. Should Niger reach some sort of agreement


IPSS: Institute for Peace and Security Studies · 4 April 2024 English

Through the 1980 Lagos Plan of Actions has become an integral part of the region’s for the Development of Africa and the 1991 security landscape as they fill the void …

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CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 4 April 2024 English

Western leaders’ apathy and lack of interest in Belarus risk creating a self-fulfilling prophecy that leaves Belarus trapped in Moscow’s smothering embrace more or less indefinitely. This paper identifies options …

February 2022, to house exiled Wagner Group mercenaries following Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny na-obrazovania. 6 Jaroslav Lukiv, “Wagner Mercenaries Have Arrived in Belarus, Ukraine Confirms,” BBC


HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies · 4 April 2024 English

In the same year, the Horn of Africa after China, the Türkiye pumped in significant humanitarian aid to European Union, the United States, Somalia in terms of relief food, healthcare …

Rapid Support Forces (RSF) also enlisted as ‘mercenaries’ in the Therefore, Türkiye’s approach of promoting


Freedom House · 4 April 2024 English

In Bosnia The only country among the Hybrid Regimes with an and Herzegovina, the recriminalization of defamation by improved Democracy Score was Ukraine, which continued the Republika Srpska entity in …

ally Turkey, which also supported the war with mercenaries recruited from Turkish-backed rebel groups in


Yoorrook Justice Commission · 1 April 2024 English

20 But the development of the settlement, the conquest, whatever words you choose, of Victoria, came very specifically in a particular period and that was the period from the mid-1830s …

manager, Angus McMillan, had a private army mercenaries that went out and slaughtered and murdered the


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