As the Russian defense chief said, all the sergeant’s and sergeant-major’s positions, the combat units of special operations forces, marine corps, battalion-level tactical groups and also positions ...

Parents of Russian conscripts who say they've lost communications with their loved ones are pleading with Kremlin officials for answers as to where family members have been sent amid concerns they ...

Many Korean men used to describe mandatory military service as a suffocating period spent confined to barracks, bound by ...

Croatia’s first conscripts in nearly two decades arrived at barracks yesterday after the Balkan nation reintroduced mandatory military service. The European Union member scrapped compulsory military ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International says many new conscripts in Thailand’s military are physically, sexually and mentally abused, with some cases amounting to torture. In a ...

A growing shortage of conscripts is threatening to disrupt the Turkmen government’s efforts to modernize the country’s armed forces. RFE/RL reports that Turkmen officials are considering raising the ...

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