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All allies will decide on the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Lithuania will not take unilateral action, says Jonas Vytautas Zukas, an adviser to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda.

Russia agreed to release a Norwegian national along with two Lithuanians as part of the recent "spy swap" deal because it was very keen to have its citizens, jailed in Lithuania for spying, back, President Gitanas Nauseda's chief national security advisor said on Tuesday.

Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas' sacrifice and oath execution till his death inspires young soldiers, Lithuania's Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas says.

The Lithuanian Defense Ministry proposes to lower the upper age limit for draftees for mandatory initial military service to 23 years.

Lithuania's elite sees Darius Jauniškis, director of the State Security Department (VSD), as being the most influential among the country's civil servants and lawyers, Delfi.lt reported on Monday.

Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford has thanked Lithuania for its support in fighting terrorism and reiterated further commitment to the security of the Baltic Sea region.

Chief of Defense of Lithuania Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas is leaving of an official visit to the United States on Thursday.

Lithuania's Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas is meeting with Poland's military commanders in Warsaw on Thursday to discuss the region's air defense and the defense of the so-called "Suwalki gap".

On June 15 His Majesty King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander while conducting a state visit in Lithuania will meet with Dutch soldiers serving in the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battle Group in Rukla. His Majesty will be escorted by President of the Republic of Lithuania HE Dalia Gry...

The DV and Media Day of exercises Thunder Storm 2018 and Saber Strike 2018 will take place at the Lithuanian Armed Forces General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Area in Švenčionys District, eastern Lithuania, on Monday.

A Danish Air Force detachment is this week handing over NATO's Baltic air-policing mission to Portugal and Spain after completing its four-month rotation.

NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General Curtis Scaparrotti is coming to Lithuania on Wednesday and will visit troops serving in the international battalion in Rukla.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has awarded Germany's Chief of Defence Volker Wieker with the Cross of Commander of the order For Merits to Lithuania.

Germany's Chief of Defence General Volker Wieker is visiting Lithuania on Wednesday.

Major General Vladimer Chachibaia, the Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces, on Thursday is starting his visit to Lithuania.

Lithuania's Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas was this week presented the possibilities of purchasing German infantry fighting vehicles Marder, however, the purchase is not planned, officials said.

The body of a Croatian soldier who died in Rukla, a town in central Lithuania where NATO's multinational battalion is based, on Wednesday was flown by a Lithuanian military transport plane to Zagreb, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said.

Lithuania's Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas is starting on Thursday a two-day official visit to Ukraine.

Several hundred people gathered in the Cathedral Square in downtown Vilnius on Thursday noon to mark 99 years since the re-establishment of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.

Lithuania expects to achieve by mid-2018 a breakthrough in NATO talks on the Baltic Sea region's air defense principles, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Wednesday.