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 ...

All three former conscripts described their time in the army as a “mental shift,” as they learnt to live in a constrained environment outside of civilian life. Each is now, to some varying degree, ...

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 ...

The Kremlin is quietly altering conscription rules in Russia as the Ukraine war continues to deplete the size of its army, according to the UK. Russia has endured more than a million casualties since ...

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 ...

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 ...