Several hundred Wagner fighters were killed by U.S. forces during a confrontation in Syria in 2018.
U.N. sanctions monitors reported in 2020 that Wagner had deployed up to 1,200 people in Libya and the U.S. military Africa Command said Russian military aircraft were supplying Wagner fighters there.
As well as bringing in Syrian fighters as mercenaries, Wagner worked alongside foreign fighters from Sudan, Chad and elsewhere.
Russian mercenaries including from Wagner intervened in 2018 on the side of the government to quell a civil war that has raged since 2012.
Wagner fighters have been accused of involvement in an incident last year in Moura, in central Mali, where local troops and suspected Russian fighters allegedly killed hundreds of civilians.
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