terrorist attack

A Vilnius court sentenced on Friday a 21-year-old man who affiliates himself with a far-right extremist group to two years and four months in prison for an attempted terror act in the Lithuanian capital.

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned Saturday's terrorist attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, which claimed nearly 300 hundred lives.

The Lithuanian Migration Department has decided to deny asylum to Alisher Toshev, a Tajik national who was last week detained at Vilnius Airport over national security concerns and remains in special accommodation premises for asylum-seekers at the airport's border control area.

Lithuania's Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas is Monday holding a meeting with top executives of private security companies to discuss threats of terrorism.

Lithuanian leaders on Sunday expressed condolences over the terrorist attacks in London, which took innocent lives.

Lithuania will continue to cooperate with the United Kingdom and international community in counter-terrorism efforts, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said as he offered his condolences to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over Monday's deadly explosion in Manchester.

Lithuania's leaders on Tuesday condemned a suspected terror attack at a pop concert in the English city of Manchester that killed at least 22 people.

Lithuania is opening this year's largest national exercise Saber Strike 2017 on Friday to allow troops and officers of internal service coordinate their actions.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has condemned Wednesday's deadly terror attack in central London.