Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carsten Breuer, the Bundeswehr chief of defence, said that national service for both sexes should be compulsory - Florian Gaertner ...

VIENNA (AP) — Austrians voted overwhelmingly Sunday to retain their conscript army, with preliminary results showing around 60 percent rejecting the proposed shift to a professional force. The wide ...

As the Russian military bogs down in Ukraine, low army morale is reportedly becoming a serious problem. With conscripts said to be abandoning gear, deserting, and showing other signs of strain, an ...

In Armenia, human rights protections in closed institutions remain systemic concerns rather than a matter of isolated ...

For the first time since the War, Germany last week found herself with an army and a War Minister. Celebrating the official promulgation of Germany’s new conscription law, handsome grey-haired Lieut.

The Lesson Other Countries Must Take from Assad’s Collapse: After more than 13 years of civil war, the final offensive and collapse of the Assad family’s 53-year rule of Syria took less than ten days.

MURMANSK, Russia -- Two months after 20-year-old conscript Yegor Voronkin arrived at his post in the Murmansk region settlement of Pechenga, he was rushed to a hospital in the city of Severomorsk. For ...

North Korea has one of the largest militaries in the world, but what is life really like for those forced to serve? In this ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian conscript who shot dead eight fellow soldiers at his army base last year said on Thursday he had been left with no other course of action after conscripts turned his life ...

VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – The Belarusian army should combine elements of a professional army and a conscripted army, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he inspected the 103rd Independent ...