US troops

Chief adviser to the president on foreign affairs, Asta Skaisgirytė, stresses that continued presence of US troops in Lithuania will be among the first matters discussed with the new US administration.

The Lithuanian Defense Ministry expects that some of the troops that the United States plans to withdraw from Germany will stay in Europe.

An attempt to publish a fake report about the presence of US troops in Lithuania was thwarted by the country’s media on Wednesday.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and US President Donald Trump discussed in London on Wednesday Vilnius' plans to purchase American military equipment.

President Gitanas Nauseda says the deployment of US troops to Lithuania is aimed at protecting people living in the country, not at intimidating Belarus.

Lithuania will not sent its soldiers to Syria if no US troops remain in the Middle East country, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Thursday.

As Belarus voices plans to take countermeasures in response to the deployment of US troops in Lithuania, Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis says there's no threat to Belarus from the West.

Over 500 US Army soldiers are coming to Lithuania in October for a half-year rotation, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

The United States' decision to send more troops to Poland means that more of them will come to Lithuania for training as well, Lithuania's Minister of National Defense says.

United States President Donald Trump pledged on Tuesday that the US would periodically station troops in the Baltic states in an effort to deter Russia.

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.

Monday marks a year since the first round of Lithuania's parliamentary elections. BNS provides an overview of the key decisions taken by the new parliament, as well as the scandals it faced and the challenges it will still have to cope with.

Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas, discusses transatlantic security, support to Eastern partners and transatlantic trade, while on a visit to Washington D.C., USA.

Military activity in the Baltic Sea region has recently heightened, however, the situation is under control, says Lithuania's Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis.

Two women, one of them pregnant, were injured as a truck carrying US troops collided with two passenger cars on the outskirts of Vilnius on Thursday, police said.

The Vilnius bureau of Baltic News Service news agency on Thursday turned to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to investigate the publishing of fake news on the agency's website.

A fake news article about alleged mustard-gas poisoning among US troops in Latvia was posted on the Baltic News Service's website in a suspected cyber attack on Wednesday.

The Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian foreign ministers are to meet with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington next week.

NATO should move its military comomands closer to the Alliance's Eastern borders, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said Thursday after meeting with General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe.