In this week's Wider Europe briefing, Rikard Jozwiak drills down on how to prevent Russian combatants from entering the EU ...

WARSAW – After Russian police started using facial-recognition cameras to identify men wanted by the military authorities, a young bank worker spent weeks avoiding the Moscow metro. But on a snowy ...

But on snowy Friday evening in late 2024, heavy traffic pushed him underground to visit his mother. At the next station, two officers entered the carriage and detained him for draft evasion. Within ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's has hardened its once-avoidable conscription system amid the war (Alexander NEMENOV) (Alexander NEMENOV/AFP/AFP) After ...

Many Korean men used to describe mandatory military service as a suffocating period spent confined to barracks, bound by rigid routines and largely disconnected from the outside world. Conscription ...

Finnish conscripts train for all-out war with Russia Finnish preparedness and deterrence against Russian aggression - whether in the form of hybrid attacks, or full-scale invasion, is long-established ...

First conscripts arrive at barracks for two months of basic training, as Croatia's government reintroduces obligatory military service almost two decades after it was abolished. An officer directs new ...

After Donald Trump’s reelection last year, a retired Army general who’d been critical of the president in the past made a list of the ways that the incoming administration could come after him, should ...