VILNIUS - Six Lithuanian soldiers who served at an Iraqi military base attacked by Iranian missiles were redeployed to Kuwait on Thursday, the military said.
"Soldiers have landed in Kuwait and are in a military base in the country," Captain Andrius Dilda, a spokesman for the Lithuanian Defense Staff, told BNS on Thursday afternoon.
The Lithuanian soldiers trained local forces fighting the Islamic States at the al Asad base as part of a Danish contingent.
Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said earlier on Thursda...
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