M23 rebels in control of key areas of eastern Congo have agreed to a ceasefire with African coalition peacekeepers who ...

More than 280 men, alleged to be "Romanian mercenaries" by the Rwanda Defense Force (RDF), have surrendered to the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The "mercenaries" are ...

In Congo, unlike Ukraine, a potential American security commitment would carry no risk of direct military confrontation with ...

With Congo-wide elections promised during the next ... A column of French-speaking mercenaries led by Major Siegfried Müller, an ex-Wehrmacht sergeant who wears a German Iron Cross, was neatly ...

Ever since the Congo became independent, foreign forces have been present. From Jadotville to Goma, the foreign forces have taken many guises - peacekeepers, mercenaries, rebel armies and ...

Faced with the rebel offensive, soldiers fighting for Congo — many of them mercenaries from other nations — were laying down their weapons at the border with Rwanda. Congo’s army seemed to ...

The decision marks a major setback to efforts meant to find a peaceful solution to the war in the Democratic Republic of ...

The AFC/M23 rebels pressed on with their offensive in eastern DR Congo, capturing the town of Walikale in North Kivu Province ...

They include Congolese government soldiers, foreign mercenaries, a United Nations peacekeeping force ... and at times have vowed to march as far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, over 1,000 miles away.