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Kyiv, Ukraine - Vladislav thinks lowering the conscription age in Ukraine from 25 to 18 is a 'bad idea'. His military service is a sad yet telling example. The fair-haired, [...]

Ukraine should consider lowering the age of military service to 18, a US official has said, as the outgoing White House administration is reported to be preparing a new weapons [...]

Byline: Constant Méheut and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn Serhii Hnezdilov, a Ukrainian soldier, said he wanted to draw attention to the need to discharge worn-out soldiers and replace them with fresh conscripts. [...]

Byline: Guardian staff and agencies Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Russian forces had tried to oust Ukrainian troops from positions in Russia's Kursk border region, but that Kyiv's forces [...]

Byline: Our Foreign Staff Ukraine should consider lowering the age of military service for its soldiers from 25 to 18, a senior US administration official said. Ukraine was not mobilising [...]

MOSCOW, September 30, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Monday, calling up 133,000 citizens for military service in autumn, according to a document posted [...]

Byline: Constant Méheut 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. [...]

The Israeli military will begin sending initial conscription orders on Sunday to ultra-Orthodox men after a landmark Supreme Court decision ordered an end to the insular community’s long-running exemption from [...]

Byline: Idan Eretz Jul. 16During discussions by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the Ministry of Finance presented its estimates of the growing defense costs in the wake of [...]

Byline: Pjotr Sauer in Kyiv The autumn cannot arrive soon enough for Dmytro, when his handlers have promised to get him out of Ukraine. For the past month, the 31-year-old [...]

Since war (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/13/myanmar-ethnic-alliance-fighters-attack-border-outposts-as-civilians-flee) resumed in his native Rakhine State last November, Thura Maung has seen his options narrow. The 18-year-old, from the state’s ethnic Rakhine majority, first fled his home [...]

Byline: Rebecca Tan SANGKHLA BURI, Thailand -- Six pickup trucks jammed with migrants from Myanmar sped through a border town in western Thailand just after dawn. Lin Soe, 18, was [...]

Byline: Joe Barnes, BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT A Chechen commander has mocked the mothers of young conscripts sent to defend Kursk from Ukraine's invasion. Apti Alaudinov, who leads the Akhmat Special forces [...]

With Russia seizing the initiative on the battlefield in recent months, Ukraine’s ability to defend itself hinges on replenishing its arsenal of weaponry and mobilizing troops. The roiling water can [...]

Byline: Andrew E. Kramer A potential expansion of the nation's military draft to replenish the exhausted, battered army has become an emotional, politically charged issue. Soldiers fight in freezing, muddy [...]

A potential expansion of the nation’s military draft to replenish the exhausted, battered army has become an emotional, politically charged issue. Soldiers fight in freezing, muddy trenches bombarded by artillery, [...]

Gotland, Sweden -- Conscript Linus pokes his head out of the commander's hatch, eases himself through the opening, and lifts himself atop the tank. Most of his days in the [...]

Byline: Fredrick Kunkle; Serhii Korolchuk VELIATYNO, Ukraine -- Soon after Russia's invasion in February 2022, Ukraine beefed up its border defenses near this Carpathian mountain village. But the extra patrols [...]

The discussion was attended by the Governor of the Grodno Region Vladimir Karanik, Assistant to the President - Inspector for the Grodno Region Yuri Karaev, Head of the Information and [...]

Byline: Steven Erlanger and Ivor Prickett The facade of the apartment building was blown off, the remains sagging to one side. Working together, the military police, the emergency services, the [...]

The facade of the apartment building was blown off, the remains sagging to one side. Working together, the military police, the emergency services, the fire department and the explosives team [...]

Byline: James Rothwell, Berlin Correspondent, Joseph Birch German commanders are trying to attract Generation Z soldiers with flashy adverts and flexible working as they heed their defence minister's call to [...]

Byline: Scott Wyland swyland@sfnewmexican.com Gary Donato was in college in New England when he received his draft notice in 1972. He went to the induction center and learned the Army [...]

Byline: Helen Davidson in Taipei China's government has revised its conscription laws, allowing retired service people to re-enlist and increasing recruitment focused on expertise in space and cyberwarfare. The amended [...]

Russia will conscript 147,000 people into its military in the coming months as part of its spring draft this year, Russian President (https://www.ibtimes.com/topic/vladimir-putin?utm_source=feeds_ibt&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=_content) Vladimir Putin has decreed. The campaign will [...]

Russia will conscript 147,000 people into its military in the coming months as part of its spring draft this year, Russian President (https://www.ibtimes.com/topic/vladimir-putin?utm_source=feeds_ibt&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=_content) Vladimir Putin has decreed. The campaign will [...]

Russia will conscript 147,000 people into its military in the coming months as part of its spring draft this year, Russian President (https://www.ibtimes.com/topic/vladimir-putin?utm_source=feeds_ibt&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=_content) Vladimir Putin has decreed. The campaign will [...]

Military training instructors throughout the U.S. armed forces began shouting this (or something very like it) at their charges soon after?the American military ditched the draft and returned to its [...]

Byline: Amy Zipkin On Jan. 27, 1973, with the Paris Peace Accords signed and U.S. involvement in Vietnam over, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird announced the end of the military [...]

Byline: Timmy Shen in Taipei Taiwan will extend its compulsory military service from four months to one year amid mounting military tensions with China, the island's president has announced. Under [...]

Taiwanese conscripts will be trained to fire more powerful weapons, such as portable Stinger and Javelin missiles, from 2024 as part of their one-year compulsory military training to enhance ­combat [...]

Taiwan will extend compulsory military service to one year from four months from 2024 due to the rising threat the democratically governed island faces from its giant neighbour China, President [...]

Taiwan will extend compulsory military service to one year from four months from 2024 due to the rising threat the democratically governed island faces from its giant neighbour China, President [...]

Taiwan’s plan to extend mandatory military service – to mitigate the effects of a low birth rate and inadequate training, and boost preparedness for a potential invasion by the mainland [...]

Byline: By, Ryan Fahey Russians waited in snaking queues at the borders of Georgia and Mongolia as they tried to dodge Vladimir Putin's mobilisation order this week. Images from showed [...]

Byline: Isobel Koshiw Young Ukrainian men attempting to leave occupied areas are being turned back by Russian soldiers, as fears grow that they may be conscripted into Russia's army, it [...]