Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg has issued an official government apology to Norwegian women who were mistreated over World War Two-era relationships with German soldiers. Norway, a neutral ...

But Norway and Sweden are still the only two countries in the world where men and women are conscripted under the same formal conditions. North Korea has the longest mandatory female military ...

Women in the Scandinavian country can already volunteer for military service ... making it only the third European nation - alongside Norway and Sweden - to require women to serve in the armed ...