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'Can't Go Back': Myanmar Conscription Exiles Struggle In Thailand
International Business Times AU· 16 hours agoWhen Myanmar's junta announced a conscription law to help crush a popular pro-democracy uprising,...
Israel conscription rule stokes ultra-Orthodox fury
BBC News· 18 hours agoWhen Israel’s ultra-Orthodox or Haredi Jewish community gathers in force you realise just how large it is. Thousands of men and boys dressed in black and...
How Burkina Faso's junta is conscripting critics to fight Islamist rebels
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 12 hours agoDAKAR (Reuters) -Arouna Loure, a vocal critic of Burkina Faso's ruling military junta, received a ...
Could Israel's ultra-Orthodox conscription ruling hurt Netanyahu?
The Week via Yahoo Canada News· 4 days agoLawmakers tried to replace the law, but repeated court extensions and government interference...
Ukraine spent years trying to build a Western-style democracy. Then Russia invaded the country
The Canadian Press via Yahoo Canada News· 4 days agoKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As an investigative journalist, then an activist, and later a lawmaker, Yehor...
Why Israel’s Court Ordered the Conscription of Ultra-Orthodox Men
Bloomberg· 5 days agoHave a confidential tip for our reporters? Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on June 25 that the military...
Sudan war: I recognised my Eritrean sister in video of captured refugees
BBC News· 2 days ago“Instantly I was able to identify Luwam, who is wearing the orange scarf I know very well - and her...
‘We will not enlist:’ Ultra-Orthodox in Israel vow to defy orders to serve in the military
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoThe protest highlighted the fault line in Israeli society between ultra-Orthodox Jews and other...
Israel may soon draft ultra-Orthodox Jews. What does it mean for the war and Netanyahu?
CNN.com· 6 days agoSince Israel’s founding, ultra-Orthodox Jews have been exempt from mandatory military service. The...
Wounded and war weary: Images of soldiers returning from the front in Eastern Ukraine
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 3 days agoAfter nearly two and a half years of war, it is unclear how many Ukrainian soldiers have been killed...