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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...