Iraq

As Lithuania has committed to chip in on the EU's efforts to deal with the refugee crisis and accept some three hundred war-fleeing people from Syria and Eritrea, many Lithuanians have expressed sentiments that are far from welcoming. Not 26-year-old Marija Fedotovaitė, however, who is set to go the...

A meeting between new Ambassador of Iraq to Lithuania, Asaad Sultan Hachim Abu Galal, and representatives of Lithuanian meat processors interested in export opportunities to Iraq was organised at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania is not seeking particular quotas or figures as regards the migrant issue, however, it wants the criteria according to which refugees are distributed among the member-states to be transparent and correspondent to the country's actual p...

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.

Three Iraqi families arrived in Vilnius on Friday. The Catholic Church of Lithuania will take care of their accommodation and integration.

The Catholic Church of Lithuania plans to receive and accommodate 19 Iraqis in Vilnius.

Four Iraqi families that fled persecution in their country will be resettled in Lithuania in early July.

The UN Security Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution initiated by Lithuania on the protection of journalists in conflict situations.

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...

Again, this article will not be related to the structure, clans, their interrelations, and KGB basis in Putin’s current regime. This essay is a sequel of the previous piece which aimed to take another glimpse at Putin’s suspicious links with international terrorism.

The tide of plebiscites for independence is rolling across Europe. You name it: Scotland, Crimea, Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk and then Spain’s Catalonia.

Nuo 2001 iki 2008 m. naftos kaina pakilo 400 proc. ir pasiekė 122 JAV dolerių už barelį ribą. Ta proga investicinio banko „Goldman Sachs“ energetikos strategas Argunas Murti paskelbė savo prognozes, kad praėjus šešiems mėnesiams žaliavinės naftos kaina gali pakilti iki 200 JAV dolerių už barelį, jei...

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is participating at the European Union (EU) Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday it had allocated almost 125,000 litas (EUR 36,000) in humanitarian aid for Iraqi children and fighting the Ebola virus.

Moscow seems to be making effort to patch up its relations with the West after a fall-out over Ukraine by trying to refocus attention away from Eastern Europe and onto the Middle East. Experts say, however, that the trick might not work.

Lithuania will join the coalition under creation against jihadists in Iraq and Syria by sending medication in response to calls from the United States, the Ministry of National Defence said.

On 19 September, at the meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the Lithuanian permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, expressed Lithuania's support for the new government of Iraq and underlined that it had to remain inclusive and represent the interes...

Two weeks ago commentators were hyperventilating about a return to the 1930s in Europe, following a Russian invasion-of-sorts into eastern Ukraine.

The Human Rights Council holds its 27th regular session from 8 to 26 September in Geneva. During the session, Lithuania and other member states of the European Union will pay particular attention to the human rights situation in Ukraine and the Middle East - Syria, the occupied Palestinian territory...

When on 15 January 1991, the United Nations issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to withdraw troops from occupied Kuwait, it was clear for Lithuania that the Soviet Union might take advantage of this event and hit back at our independence.