Syria

The Lisbon Treaty was designed to fundamentally alter the Common Foreign and Security Policy. At last, the EU was supposed to have the answer to Kissinger’s famous question: who do you call if you wish to speak with Europe? Solidarity, enhanced cooperation and streamlined decision-making were the fu...

Lithuania is planning to send several military doctors to Jordan to help the Middle Eastern country handle refugees from Syria, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said.

A Syrian family of five have arrived in Lithuania from Turkey under the European Union's (EU) resettlement programme.

Each Russian leader picks a subject he is an expert in and Vladimir Putin's subject is history. "That is why in order to understand Russia, we must understand Russian history," says Professor Nina Khrushcheva of the New School University in New York.

On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift.

Сирийские повстанцы сбили военный самолет к югу от Алеппо, сообщает Reuters со ссылкой на данные Сирийского совета по надзору за правами человека.

There were some 13 million Muslims living in Europe several years ago, according to Pew Research Center, and several more million have come from Syria and Iraq over the last few years. Professor Egdūnas Račius of the Kaunas-based Vytautas Magnus University says that religion is not always the right ...

The Syrian civil war, which started five years ago, has devastated the country, killing 270,000 people and displacing half of the population. Public Radio International, based in the United States, developed an application that simulates the scale of the damage in terms of any other country of your ...

Counter-terrorism efforts and the migration crisis will reduce the international community's attention on the security situation in Eastern Europe and will have a negative effect upon Lithuania, according to Lithuanian intelligence assessments.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that the war in Syria cost Russia 33 billion Rubles (or €430 million) but it may also generate billions of euros in arms sales for Russia.

With great fanfare and “surprise” Russia once again seemingly out-maneuvered Western leadership in Syria. While much ink has been spilled debating whether President Vladimir Putin is executing a sound strategy—or is merely a tactical opportunist—it is clear that he has achieved his primary strategic...

Russian television has thrived for months on a diet of victories in Syria. Now that the time has come to spin the news of a withdrawal, the argument is being deployed that it is best to avoid a second Afghanistan. Better still, the exit is being presented as another case of Russia outsmarting the Un...

After two days of negotiations, Turkey and the European Union reached a compromise agreement on a plan to reduce the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe. At a summit concluding March 18, the heads of government of the 28 EU members and their Turkish counterparts approved the plan, which ...

Last week the first refugees from Syria settled in the Rukla refugee reception camp – 29-year-old painter and graphic designer Majd Kara and 27-year-old English teacher Mohammed Farah told of how they came to end up in Lithuania - a story about the refugee smuggling business.

The European Union's (EU) agreement with Turkey on returning migrants may open new migration routes to Europe, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after arriving at the European Summit on Thursday.

The Western political establishment is hostile to Russia. This makes it all the more important to demonstrate that the Western religious establishment is more sympathetic. Regardless of Putin’s aims, the meeting between Pope and Patriarch has become a landmark event in the history of Christianity.

Imagine for a moment that almost half of the population of Vilnius was Ukrainian refugees fleeing the civil war that rages on with the help of Putin's Russian army. That is the present situation in Lebanon, which is hosting several million Syrian refugees.

Russia does not seek peace in the Middle East but has far bigger global strategic intentions, says Lithuanian political analyst Marius Laurinavičius.

Russia's decision to withdraw the majority of its forces from Syria, announced on Monday by Vladimir Putin, has analysts questioning what the rationale behind the move was. Was this practice for Putin before another attack in Ukraine or the Baltic states, or was it an even more crushing defeat than ...