After receiving a call-up notice and undergoing a fitness check, conscripts are sent to a military barracks to begin basic training. Here, they begin a process of transformation: putting on a military ...

It was the first time the 35-year-old technician had left his Haluk neighbourhood since rebel groups overran it four years ago. After a month-long assault, Syria's army and allied militias are closing ...

Syria's army has issued demobilisation orders for a new round of men conscripted for compulsory service in 2010, a year before the civil war started. The decision, announced by state media Monday, ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks at the plenary session of the 6th International Arctic Forum in Murmansk. The Forum serves as a key platform for discussing the current socio-economic ...

Russian conscripts are taking their own lives to avoid fighting in Ukraine, according to local media reports. Vladimir Putin announced a "partial mobilisation" towards the end of September in a bid to ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has ordered 160,000 Russians be called up for military service, marking the country's highest number of conscripts in 14 years. The new order is to be carried out ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to call up 160,000 conscripts for military service in the spring campaign, according to the document published on Monday MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. A ...

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Kim Gyu-ha speaks to new conscripts and their families as he takes part in a ceremony at a boot camp in the city of Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, central South Korea, on ...

Challenges in forging conscripts into fighting force range from inadequate training facilities to eroding public will to ...