The Special Prosecutor's Office in Ternopil is investigating the death of a 49-year-old man who died at a military enlistment center in Ternopil Oblast following a many-day stay at the center. The man ...

An alarming video has emerged showing what appears to be a Russian military conscript asking a friend to break his arm with a sledgehammer to dodge the draft into the war with Ukraine. The recording, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on March 31 to conscript 150,000 citizens as part of the regularly occurring spring conscription campaign, Russia's Defense Ministry reported. Russia ...

The South Korean military sought Monday to secure the surrender of a cornered fugitive conscript who killed five fellow soldiers in a shooting spree on the border with North Korea. Initial media ...

The Tajik Army is now admitting that a young conscript who died last month in northern Khujand Province was beaten to death. Zafar Nizomov, an investigator at the military prosecutor's office in ...

March 14 (UPI) --Denmark plans to conscript women into its military, it defense ministry said, as it seeks to bolster its ranks while strengthening its armed forces. The Nordic nation announced plans ...

(New York) – Thai authorities should promptly and independently investigate the death of an army conscript from apparent torture while detained in a military jail, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...

COPENHAGEN — Denmark wants to increase the number of young people doing military service by extending conscription to women and increasing the time of service from four months to 11 months for both ...

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 ...

Conscription has a long history in Russia. Hundreds of thousands of young Russian men are drafted into the country's military every year, a practice carried over from the Soviet Union-era and the ...

Rights groups are calling for an investigation into the death of a Thai army conscript from apparent torture last week, and an end to corporal punishment in Thailand's armed forces. Yutthakinin ...