The recent suggestion by retired Korean Air Force officer Kim Hyung-chul to conscript women to counter the country’s declining birth rate has sparked a heated debate. Enlisting women in the ...

Large numbers of recruits will arrive at the front in the coming weeks, soldiers and military analysts said, but some are poorly trained or out of shape. By Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv ...

The chief of a military think tank in South Korea has sparked controversy after suggesting that conscripting women into the military could boost marriage and fertility rates. Kim Hyung-chul ...

"Obviously, if we get involved in a general war with Russia, we’ll be conscripting the population - there’s no question about that," the Liberal Democrat added. "Being prepared generates ...

DAKAR, July 2 (Reuters) - Arouna Loure, a vocal critic of Burkina Faso's ruling military junta, received a conscription order on Sept. 7 last year requesting that the anaesthesiologist start a ...

FILE PHOTO: Burkina Faso's self-declared new leader Ibrahim Traore arrives at the national television in Ouagadougou ...

JERUSALEM, June 10 (Reuters) - Israel's parliament moved ahead with a contentious law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox religious students into the military amid angry scenes on Monday in the Knesset ...

Music historian Leah Broad discovers how pianists Elly Ney and Myra Hess used Beethoven to shape wartime culture in Germany and Britain. Show more Myra Hess and Elly Ney were both celebrated ...

This week, Israel’s government announced that starting Sunday, it would begin conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men for the first time in the country’s 76-year history. The statement came ...