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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

AMMAN — The Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) on Wednesday said that it had finalised preparations at the National Military Service Training Centre to receive the second batch of conscripts. The ...

The army late last night demoted a company commander after he was accused of using a racial slur against a Japanese-Taiwanese conscript serving under him. The commander, a captain, was removed from ...