While A New Hope gets all the credit, The Empire Strikes Back introduces plenty of great Star Wars characters.

A new book delves deep into the rise and fall of the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group and its close ties to Vladimir Putin.

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in ... that the man interred in the ship ...

Even though it’s not “their” empire, not the one victimising ... I could not bring myself to see a “mercenary” in him. I saw a misguided young man the age my son could be.