MINSK -- Three Belarusian Army sergeants have gone on trial over the suspicious death of young conscript, Alyaksandr Korzhych, in October. The Minsk Regional Court said on August 8 that Anton ...

Carsten Breuer, the Bundeswehr chief of defence, said that national service for both sexes should be compulsory - Florian Gaertner/Photothek/Getty Images A German general said women should be ...

CHIANG MAI: A court has jailed two army instructors for their roles in the death of conscript Kittithorn Wiangbanphot.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.