The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has joined hands with the army and navy in drafting a framework aimed at improving the treatment of new conscripts.

On January 30, 2026, a Russian military court issued the first sentence in a case involving theft from a classified Defense Ministry facility in the Leningrad region. Seven service members — four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

(AP) With no wars to fight and friends on every border, neutral Austria has little reason to feel threatened which may explain why Sunday’s referendum on the future of its army is being driven by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine if the sound of gunfire from a shooting range was audible from the Thames – or if leafy Chiswick was a military base training the UK’s top urban warfare soldiers to defend cities from foreign ...