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June 30, 2023

What the Downfall of Yevgeny Prigozhin Means for the Middle East

An opportunity for the U.S. to exploit.

Last weekend, the Wagner Group—a private military organization created and employed by the Kremlin—engaged in an abortive mutiny against the Russian military, which resulted in Wagner’s head, Yevgeny Prigozhin, going into exile and his army coming under the auspices the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD). Well before its much-publicized involvement in Ukraine, Wagner fought alongside the pro-Iranian coalition in Syria, as well as in various conflicts in the North and Central Africa. Anna Borshchevskaya, Ben Fishman, and Andrew Tabler explain the implications of recent events for the Middle East:

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