Afghanistan

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...

Lithuania will send six additional military police officers to NATO's mission in Afghanistan and a water purification unit and staff officers to the United Nations operation in Mali, the Ministry of National Defence told BNS on Tuesday.

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Many immigrants to Lithuania are happy with their lives here and are not planning to move back to their homelands. A number of immigrants shared their stories on LRT programme Ryto garsai (morning sounds).

Starting on 1 January, 2016, a new motorized infantry brigade named Žemaitija will be formed in Western Lithuania.

Lithuania will send up to 130 soldiers to international missions in 2016-2017, parliament decided on Tuesday.

A Lithuanian officer who was injured in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan is expected to be transported to The Landstuhl Regional Medical Centre in Ramstein, Germany, on Wednesday. The Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces learned about this from Bahram military hospital were the officer is bei...

A Lithuanian army officer was injured in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Sunday, DELFI reports.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday congratulated Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on the country's Independence Day.

A formal deployment ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces in Vilnius on Friday for yet another shift of Lithuanian soldiers joining the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

Lithuanian Special Operations Squadron Aitvaras is finishing its mission in Afghanistan after 13 years. However, a dozen of Lithuanian troops are set to stay in the country for at least the end of this year.

A Lithuanian delegation led by the country's National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas is on a visit to Afghanistan where Lithuanian troops are serving in the NATO-led Resolute Support mission.

Lithuanian Special Operations Force (LITHSOF) squadron – Combat Divers Service – performs assault operation in a building taken over by hostile forces. This operation is one many performed by the Combat Divers.

Lithuanian Special Operations Force (LITHSOF) squadron – Combat Divers Service – performs assault operation in a building taken over by hostile forces. This operation is one many performed by the Combat Divers.

The Lithuania Tribune/EN.DELFI TV presents a series of short documentary video reports about one squadron of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force (LITHSOF) – the Combat Divers Service (CDS). In this unique video project, for the first time you will have a glimpse at complex and multidimensional s...

The 27 European Union (EU) Member States for which data are available granted protection status to 185,000 asylum seekers in 2014, up by almost 50 percent compared with 2013. Since 2008, more than 750,000 asylum seekers have been granted protection status in the EU, said Eurostat, the statistical of...

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama nominated General Joe Dunform as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and General Paul Selva as Vice Chairman during a brief ceremony at the White House.

Scholars will discuss the consequences of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979–1989 from a transnational perspective, especially in terms of strategies for (re)integrating veterans during a two-day workshop at the European Humanities University. On February 12 at 5 PM they present their research in a round...

Lithuanian servicemen escaped injuries during the suicide attack in the airport of Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Sunday. However, the blast shattered windows of their residential container, the Ministry of National Defence said on Monday.

A retrospective look at the conflicts dominating the headlines in 2014 presents a grim picture of escalating conflict and human suffering. Underneath the headlines is a common thread connecting the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Ukrainian protesters in the Maidan, and the Ni...