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Nonkululeko Patricia Mantula, a 39-year-old host on South Africa’s SAFM state radio network, was arrested and brought into court on Monday to face charges of recruiting South African men to fight for Russia on the battlefields of Ukraine.

The government of South Africa on Thursday announced an investigation into how 17 of its citizens became mercenaries on the battlefields of Ukraine. The men are sending “distress signals” pleading for rescue, and their families claim they were tricked into fighting.

The Department of Defense (DOD) has been meeting its military recruiting goals months ahead of schedule after barely scraping by and sometimes falling short under the Biden administration, prompting Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell to attribute the recent success to the “leadership” displayed by President Donald Trump and Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth.

The United States Army said it has hit its 2025 recruiting goal four months early, the news coming as such positive trends have appeared among the nation’s armed forces.

Vice President JD Vance reaffirmed the Trump administration’s full confidence in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, underscoring the positive recruiting trends in the armed forces.

As the Biden-Harris administration’s term ends, its four-year focus on social reforms over combat readiness has left America’s armed forces woke, weak, and dangerously unprepared — with historically low recruitment numbers, lowered standards, and compromised morale at a time of rising global threats.

A partnership between the U.S. Army and Dwayne “The Rock”Johnson to help boost falling enlistment figures has reportedly backfired, resulting in an $11 million loss with nothing to show for it.

Officials said there are at least three victims, including a 15-year-old, 16-year-old, and 17-year-old who were reported runaways.

The Colombian government asked its citizens to denounce TikTok accounts that are being used by the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization to recruit minors into its ranks, Colombia’s Communications Minister Mauricio Lizcano announced Thursday.

The Army’s recruitment letter to soldiers discharged for the COVID mandate will not work in bringing these mistreated soldiers back into the service. But here is what will work.

Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted on Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of volunteers are rushing to join the Russian military and fight in Ukraine.

A group of Ukrainian hackers allegedly obtained documentation on nearly 200 Cuban citizens who were recruited by Russia to fight in Ukraine.

U.S. military applicants may soon be able to use calculators while taking entrance tests as officials grapple with recruitment troubles.

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) stated that the version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by the House will cause “a major recruiting problem that they’re putting onto the military” because the

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth argued that criticisms of “a woke military” are “undermining our recruiting at a time where we really can’t afford that.” Co-host Joe Scarborough asked, “So, our troops are the best

Police detained Zhanna Romanovskaya, a 55-year-old employee of the Architecture and Construction Ministry of the Russian city of Vladimir, on Wednesday for throwing firebombs at a military recruiting center.

The U.S. Navy confirmed on Wednesday that it used a drag queen influencer as one of its “Digital Ambassadors.”

Warning of a “major threat to democracy,” Republican Reps. Mike Waltz (R-FL) and Jim Banks (R-IN) are demanding “transparency” regarding the effects of the Department of Defense’s “wokeness” — which they blame for undermining the military’s apolitical character and harming recruitment, which is at a “historic” low.

The RAF has paused its hiring of white men so as to hit its diversity quotas for women and ethnic minorities, an officer has claimed.

Mobs of angry young men set fire to two offices of India’s ruling party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in eastern India’s Bihar state this week as part of nationwide protests against New Delhi’s recent decision to alter the guidelines of traditional military recruitment in the country, India Today reported on Friday.

The Philadelphia Police Department is dealing with a police shortage as they are struggling to attract and retain police officers.

Over 50,000 potential recruits to Her Majesty’s Armed Services have withdrawn their applications in just the first half of this year after military brass ordered recruiters to target “snowflakes”, “binge gamers”, and “me me me millennials”.

The U.S. Army announced a temporary hold Monday on sending recruits to basic training amid concerns over the potential spread of coronavirus.

One in five British Army personnel are not fit to or otherwise cannot be deployed overseas, while the force is still 5,000 recruits short of its “tiny” 82,000-man target.

Two of every three swing voters say the Pentagon should postpone plans to accept ‘transgender’ people into the U.S. military, according to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports.

TEL AVIV – There has been a surge of interest among Arab Israelis looking to be recruited to Israel Police following a campaign targeting that sector of society.

Recovered documents from the Islamic State terror group reveal that more than one in ten of their recruits would like to become suicide bombers.

When a leading Republican presidential candidate was targeted last week by a sloppy hit piece that claimed he was lying about an effort to recruit him out of high school to West Point, commentators with long memories recalled that Hillary Clinton used to tell a story about trying to join the Marines when she was in college.

The House Homeland Security Committee released a report on domestic terrorist recruitment on Tuesday that found the largest number of American ISIS recruits came from Minnesota, with California and New York vying for second place.