The Lithuanian State Security Department says that there are no Lithuanian citizens fighting on the side of the Islamic State in Syria. However, several dozen Polish and Latvian Islamic State supporters have gone to Syria.
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Artūras Paulauskas, the head of the National Security and Defence Committee in the Lithuanian parliament, has said to the Žinių Radijas radio that a ground operation against the Islamic State (ISIS) will have to be launched and Lithuania will probably not be able to stay away.
Islam is not and could not be the reason for terrorist attacks in France, says Lithuanian Muslim Mufti Romas Jakubauskas.
Lithuanian political scientists, journalists and politicians comment on the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris which left at least 129 people dead.
Russia's recent involvement in the war in Syria will only worsen the plight of refugees who are making their way to Europe in thousands, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.
The West will not renounce its commitments to Ukraine in exchange for Russia's help in fighting the Islamic State, an adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who's attending UN events in New York, said on Tuesday.
Russia should respect those principles the country's President Vladimir Putin mentioned in his speech at the UN General Assembly on Monday, Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says.
“I would compare Putin to the Roman leaders in the time of Roman Empire’s agony. While Caesar’s Rome was the Rome of ascendancy, Putin’s Rome is the one of decay. The regime in Russia shows all signs of agony,” says Kremlinologist Lilia Shevtsova.
Christians are forced to flee Iraq fearing for their lives, Klara Lazar Banyameen Shamoon said in Vilnius. She has recently arrived in Lithuania together with 14 other Iraqi Christian refugees.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Mr Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary, from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. The Islamic state or Russia, what is the biggest security threat to Europe, looking from the Washington, we asked the Assi...
Three Iraqi families arrived in Vilnius on Friday. The Catholic Church of Lithuania will take care of their accommodation and integration.
Four Iraqi families that fled persecution in their country will be resettled in Lithuania in early July.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė made her annual State of the Nation address at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, on Thursday. In her speech, the president mostly focused on national defence, security challenges stemming from Russia's aggressive policies, as well as emigration of working-age...
The UN Security Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution initiated by Lithuania on the protection of journalists in conflict situations.
At the United Nations Security Council open debate on the Middle East on 21 April, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, said that the situation in the region had rarely been more dramatic, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Russia is threatening other countries, because this is Moscow's way of working, US House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry said in Vilnius on Thursday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has strongly condemned the killing of Egyptian Copts and extended the deepest sympathy to the families of the victims and to all Egyptians.
On 1 February, Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius issued a statement on the killing of a Japanese journalist by terrorist organization IS.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Prof. Andres Ilmar Kasekamp, The director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute and Professor of Baltic Politics at the University of Tartu. We asked Prof Kasekamp’s opinion about EU sanctions against Russia and some voices within the EU to soften them...
For days now many in the global and Lithuanian media have locked horns over the terrorist acts in Paris. There are some who say that freedom to express one's convictions is above any religious or social group interests; others contend that cartoons published by the likes of Charlie Hebdo made mercil...
