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There is no need to announce a higher level of terrorism threat in Lithuania, because the State Security Department (VSD) is working to monitor the situation in the country and cooperating with foreign partners, the head of the State Security Department, Darius Jauniškis, told the LRT programme Sava...
A new propaganda video, claimed to be released by Islamic State, names a "global coalition" of the terrorist organization's enemies that includes Lithuania.
Someone recently described the recent terrorist attacks in Paris as designed in Syria and developed in Brussels. It may very well be. Meanwhile Moscow monitors and actively exploits every turn of the conflict.
The Lithuanian State Security Department says that there are no Lithuanian citizens fighting on the side of the Islamic State in Syria. However, several dozen Polish and Latvian Islamic State supporters have gone to Syria.
В 2014 году прямой ущерб глобальной экономике от террористической деятельности составил 52,9 миллиарда долларов. Этот показатель превысил рекорд 2001 года, когда ущерб составил 51,51 миллиарда долларов.
Islam is not and could not be the reason for terrorist attacks in France, says Lithuanian Muslim Mufti Romas Jakubauskas.
The Liberal Movement political group in the Lithuanian parliament has proposed to boost funding for counter-terrorism effort by additional EUR 15 million starting in 2016.
The prime minister‘s spokeswoman Evelina Butkutė-Lazdauskienė says that even if Lithuania is shocked by the events in Paris, it is not frightened.
Prior to leaving for Paris to participate in the Leaders' Forum of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), President Dalia Grybauskaitė emphasised that everyone must join efforts and look at the fight against terrorism anew because this challenge needs a united...
After a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night, Lithuanians join people across the world in expressing solidarity with France.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13. These barbaric acts against civilians is a callous and cruel attack against humanity and civilisation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The last group Lithuanian tourists in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh will be flown back home on Wednesday at the latest. On Sunday evening, the charter operator Small Planet Airlines carried 178 tourists from the resort destination in the Sinai Peninsula to Vilnius, ELTA reports.
The Ambassador of Lithuania to the Council of Europe, Laima Jurevičienė, and the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, have signed the Council of Europe's Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financi...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has strongly condemned the terrorist attack carried out against peaceful protesters in Ankara on Saturday.
Vis garsiau perspėjama, kad smurto išpuolių siekiantys surengti džihadistai galbūt mėgina prasmukti į Europą apsimetę pabėgėliais, bet analitikai atkreipia dėmesį, kad ekstremistams nebūtina sėsti į palaikes gumines valtis, norint patekti į Senąjį žemyną.
The four-day Sherpa Meeting before the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit ended on 2 July in Vilnius. The meeting brought together 130 high-ranking officials from 48 countries along with representatives from international organisations like the United Nations (UN), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA...
Lithuanian tour operator Novaturas is canceling flights to Tunisia scheduled until September 10 after nearly 40 people were killed in a terror attack last Friday.
Some 210 tourists from Lithuania are currently in Tunisia and 80 of them are in the town of Sousse, where nearly 40 people were killed in a terror attack on Friday, the tour operator Novaturas said on Saturday.
The man who threatened to explode a bomb outside the Lithuanian President's Office on Wednesday evening is mentally unstable, Vilnius police chief Kęstutis Lančinskas said.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) strongly condemned the brutal terrorist attack of 2 April in the university town of Garissa (Kenya), when 147 people, mostly students, were killed.
