Unable to earn enough at home, Syrian opposition fighters are travelling via Turkey to Africa to work as mercenaries, often under Russian command

Since December 2023, more than 1,000 Syrian fighters have travelled to Niger via Turkey, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which monitors the conflict in Syria through a network of sources on the ground. They tend to sign up for six months, but some have now extended the contract to a year....