mercenaries
Example Sentences
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Mali imported Russia’s Wagner mercenaries in 2022, in a failed attempt to swiftly suffocate the local Islamist insurgency that has since emerged as al Qaeda’s most successful and resilient offshoot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Colombian President Gustavo Petro was quoted last year as calling the mercenaries "spectres of death" and describing their recruitment as a "form of human trafficking".
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
It adds that the CIG identified other devices associated with Colombian mercenaries also present during the RSF takeover.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
It flew in its Wagner mercenaries to support his forces and used his territory as its logistical access point to half-a-dozen sub-Saharan countries where it scooped up valuable reserves of gold, diamond and timber.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
They would need mercenaries, so officers recruited men from militias made up of squatters from Kentucky.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
