A conscript who was deemed fit for military service by a medical commission died in an enlistment office in southwestern Zakarpattia Oblast due to a rapid deterioration of his health, the regional ...

Minister of Defense of Estonia Kalle Laanet (Reform) introduced a recent report on military service to the government, which shows that nearly all of the set national defense obligations were ...

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 ...

The Defence Ministry's recent "Public Opinion and National Defense" survey showed that 93 percent of the Estonian population support compulsory military service. 67 percent of respondents find it to ...

A court in St. Petersburg has upheld the right of a soldier conscripted during Russia's war in Ukraine to perform alternative civil service, a rights group said. The group Voenniy Ombudsmen (Military ...

March 25, 2007: Taiwan is moving towards an all volunteer force. Next January, conscription service will decline from 18 to 12 months. As recently as 2005, conscript service was 22 months. Men are ...

At the age of eighteen, Alexander D. was a high-school drop-out, had a criminal record for a burglary, and had once attempted suicide. 2 He grew up in a poor and dysfunctional family—his mother was an ...

On March 5 in the morning a military conscript of Hrodna border service command died. BelaPAN was informed about that by the press-secretary of the State Border Committee Alyaksandr Tishchanka ...