Syria

Российской авиации позволили использовать авиабазу в Иране. Информация о том, что самолеты ВКС России приземлились на иранском аэродроме, появилась в соцсетях, а также на арабском портале Al-Masdar News.

Redwan Eid, is a Syrian journalist and refugee who had to flee his war-torn homeland and is now one of the first refugees Lithuania has accepted into the country. Here is his story.

Пресс-секретарь российского президента Владимира Путина Дмитрий Песков назвал вбросом сообщения о распылении токсичного газа в районе сбитого российского вертолета Ми-8 в сирийской провинции Идлиб.

Another 12 Syrian refugees arrived in Lithuania on Monday evening under the European Union's resettlement programme.

Ten refugees from Syria and Iraq arrived in Lithuania in early hours of Friday under the European Union's resettlement programme. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Redwan Eid, is a Syrian journalist and refugee who had to flee his war-torn homeland and is now one of the first refugees Lithuania has accepted into the country. Here is his story.

Interior Minister Tomas Žilinskas has criticized Lithuania's refugee integration policy, saying that newcomers in integration centres are placed in a social environment that is not conductive to successful integration. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The biggest threat to NATO is our own inertness and unwillingness to protect our values, said Kurt Volker, former NATO Ambassador and Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Does the international perception of Russia as an expansionist and warmongering country sit well with the mood of Russia's population?

Few Lithuanian employers would we willing to hire refugees. Reluctance to deal with unfamiliar working cultures and differing attitudes towards work is one of the reasons, but companies that have experience of hiring migrant workers say Lithuania needs to open up its labour market to make up for the...

Is the West misreading Russian President Vladimir Putin? Brookings Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the United States and Europe Fiona Hill sets the record straight in a new article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

“Europe hasn't failed, states have – as administrative subjects”, Raul Romeva, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Institutional Relations and Transparency in the Catalan Government, said as he closed an international forum on refugee integration earlier in May.

Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said that the European Union will find it more difficult to renew sanctions against Russia in the coming months amid "increased resistance" within the 28-member bloc.

The latest wave of refugees and migrants to Europe has barely touched Lithuania, and only 11 have been relocated to Lithuania out of its total quota of 1,105. However, many people have expressed a number of unclear fears about the migrants and refugees and seem to lack solidarity with Western Europe...

Lithuania has been slow in taking in refugees under the European Union's resettlement programme and is lagging behind Latvia and Estonia, according to the European Commission.

Refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East is not a problem just for Europe to solve, says US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Benjamin G. Ziff.

Lithuania has promised to accept more than 1,000 refugees over the next two years but has barely received a handful of asylum seekers. Though it is not believed that they will start arriving by the hundred this year, the number of those interested in coming to Lithuania is increasing.

Refugees resettled in Lithuania have started looking for job, says the country's Labour Exchange which set up a special unit to work with them.

At the NATO Joint Force headquarters in Brunssum, commander Salvatore Farina told the Estonian military administration that a decision on the garrison of NATO military forces in the Baltic states will be made at the alliance's summit meeting in Warsaw.

Per antskrydį prieš vieną pabėgėlių stovyklą sukilėlių užimtoje Šiaurės Sirijoje žuvo mažiausiai 28 žmonės, praneša stebėtojai.