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 ...

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 ...

A military company commander who allegedly used racist insults against a Taiwanese-Japanese dual-national conscript was indicted on Friday, with prosecutors seeking an increased sentence, citing the ...

The army late last night demoted a company commander after he was accused of using a racial slur against a Japanese-Taiwanese conscript serving under him. The commander, a captain, was removed from ...

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 ...

With the emperor restored to power, Japan’s new leadership moved quickly to modernize its military. The traditional samurai class found itself replaced by a national conscript army modeled after ...