Four US soldiers and a vehicle went missing in eastern Lithuania, where authorities have been carrying out a search-and-rescue operation since Tuesday.

Four US Army soldiers were found dead in Lithuania after missing during a training exercise near the Belarus border. The soldiers, from Fort Stewart, Georgia, were last seen operating an armored vehicle.

NATO is clarifying comments that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made when he suggested that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, even though the U.S. Army said their