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Lithuania's parliament has opened a government's proposal to raise wages for intelligence officers.

Danish troops protect not only the Baltic nations, but also their own country as they conduct NATO's Baltic air-policing mission, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said during his visit to Lithuania on Monday.

Four US F-15C fighter jets continue NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission from the Siauliai military airbase after Lithuanian-American military drills involving US aircraft ended last week.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė ranks 68th among the world's 100 most powerful females published by the US magazine Forbes.

The United States have ceased permanent rotation of its Land Forces troops in Lithuania, however, will continue sending them to exercises, says US Lieutenant General Ben Hodges.

Darius Jauniškis, the director of the Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD), says that intelligence agencies are increasingly open to communication with the public as they cannot remain invisible services in this information age.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė is Thursday leaving for the European Union's (EU) summit, which will discuss talks on the United Kingdom's exit from the organization and the bloc's plans for reforms.

Moscow said on Wednesday that two Russian military aircraft violated Lithuanian airspace in late September in order to avoid a storm, which was in line with international rules.

Lithuania's ambassador in Minsk, Andrius Pulokas, on Monday was handed a diplomatic note over a violation of Belarus' border.

Lithuanian authorities who have detained a drunk Russian border guards have received conflicting calls from Russia to free the young man – a Russian border general initially said the man was an unemployed handicapped man, however, later admitted he was employed with the Russian border service, accor...

The Zapad 2017 military exercise held by Russia and Belarus last week involved several times more troops than official numbers and saw bombardments and other dangerous actions take place close to the Baltic countries' borders, top-ranking Lithuanian military intelligence and Defense Ministry officia...

Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis will on Tuesday present an initial assessment of Zapad 2017, a Russia-Belarus joint military exercise that ended last week.

NATO fighter-jets patrolling Baltic airspace were scrambled nine times last week to intercept Russian military aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday.