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 being treated. […]
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. […]
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 office of the European Union. […]
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 table at Vilnius University´s History Faculty. […]
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 Nigerian families still desperately seeking someone to #BringBackOurGirls. That common thread is corruption, Mary Beth Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, writes on The Mark News. […]
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. […]
Lithuania, as an active member of international community – NATO, the European Union, the United Nations – this year is planning to participate in six multinational operations and missions, about 100 Lithuanian troops will be deployed abroad, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
Up to 100 Lithuanian troops will continue their service in Afghanistan next year, Chief of Defence Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas said during a meeting with Lithuanian soldiers serving in the NATO peace support operation in Afghanistan. […]
On 5 December, Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas and his delegation is visiting Lithuanian military personnel serving in the multinational mission in Afghanistan, the Ministry of National Defence informs. […]
Lithuania intends to call off its mission performing development cooperation work in Afghanistan as of March 2015. […]
Although international law as a concept of general principles and customs has been known for centuries, reaching as back as Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome, discussions concerning its existence and common application reached its apogee only in the 20th century; however, neither the theoretical discussions, nor practical events managed to provide a definite answer to the most fundamental question, which is still being considered now at the time of unprecedented Russian aggression towards Ukraine and in the light of continuous conflicts in the Middle East: is international law, per se, real law? […]
Up to 100 Lithuanian soldiers will serve in the NATO mission in Afghanistan next year, training Afghan forces, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said on Tuesday. […]
A Lithuanian-led group who trained helicopter pilots and helicopter technical maintenance personnel of the Afghan National Army has finished their mission. […]
A meeting of chiefs of defense of NATO member-states is starting in Vilnius on Friday to address efforts to step up security in Eastern Europe and the future of the mission in Afghanistan. […]
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