Syria

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.

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

Lithuania's Ministry of the Interior on Monday presented the government with a draft proposal which suggests accepting up to 200 refugees by 2018 in an effort to contribute to the resolution of the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

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

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...

At the United Nations Security Council open debate on the Middle East on 21 April, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN, Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaitė, said that the situation in the region had rarely been more dramatic, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Sirijos prezidentas Basharas al Assadas pareiškė, kad dėl praėjusios savaitės atakų Paryžiuje yra kaltas Vakarų „trumparegiškumas“ ir „parama teroristams“, sukilusiems prieš Sirijos režimą, trečiadienį skelbia žiniasklaida.

Per „Auksinių gaublių“ ceremoniją šį sekmadienį atsiimdamas apdovanojimą už gyvenimo pasiekimus, aktorius ir režisierius George'as Clooney sakydamas padėkos kalbą apdovanojimų reikšmę vertino iš perspektyvos ir, taip pat, išreiškė paramą kruvinos atakos prieš prancūzų satyrinį savaitraštį „Charlie H...

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.

According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, US Secretary of State John Kerry and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were distinctly active in foreign policy this year. Linkevičius also noticed that the role of personalities has been giving way to coordinated work of institutions and int...

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

The Ukraine issue must be kept in focus of the international community's attention and the Russian “propaganda machine” must be countered, says Lithuania's Ambassador to the United Nations Raimonda Murmokaitė.

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.

120s: Fighting erupts in Donetsk, US bombs Islamic State, Lithuania receives a note from Russia, Opera for the young, Watching bears in Estonian woods.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the killing of a humanitarian aid worker from the United Kingdom, David Haines, stating that the crimes cannot undermine the efforts against terrorism.

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...

After the civil war in Syria began, in 2012, Hamas headquarters moved out of Damascus. Political leaders of Hamas are now based in Qatar.

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.