Either maintaining Russia’s military bases in Syria or finding an alternative outpost in the Mediterranean will prove ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

France handed over its last military base ... in recent years from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso following years of fighting Islamic extremists alongside regional troops. Those countries have moved ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso ...

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent.