Lithuania will increase its defence spending next year to 5.38 percent of GDP, Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said Wednesday, crossing the five-percent threshold demanded of NATO members by US ...

Lithuania has announced its participation in the PURL program. The country will provide 30 million dollars for the purchase ...

Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene and several EU and NATO leaders have called for the urgent construction of a ...

Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member next to Russia, in its first major long-term deployment ...

Investigative project Tochnyi reported in August that Russia's development of the site had been proceeding quickly near the Baltic Sea, which has been dubbed a NATO lake following the alliance's ...

Turkey has deployed an advanced AWACS radar plane to Lithuania, signaling NATO is stepping up defenses in the Baltic region after Russian violations of its airspace.

Germany's deployment of a brigade in Lithuania is "right on schedule," the unit's leader told dpa on Thursday in Vilnius.

VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania's parliament granted the Baltic country's armed forces powers on Tuesday to shoot down any unmanned drone violating its airspace following incidents in which it said two ...

Recent drone sorties over Lithuania and its neighbours have sparked fears of a full-scale Russian attack, prompting the small Baltic country to encourage the building of bomb shelters."New apartment ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey temporarily deployed a warning and control aircraft to Lithuania as part of NATO security measures, the defence ministry said on Thursday, following repeated airspace ...