Azerbaijan to host Turkey, Pakistan for joint military drills beginning tomorrow

Pakistani soldiers take part in a drill in Peshawar on Sept. 5, 2019. (AFP/File)

• The drills will last for about a week and bring together the three militaries for the first time
• The ‘Three Brothers — 2021’ exercises are held to improve cooperation among the special forces of the participating countries

BAKU: Azerbaijan, Turkey and Pakistan will hold joint military drills from Sept. 12-20 in Baku, Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said on Saturday, the first such drills between the three countries.
The goal of the “Three Brothers — 2021” exercises is to improve cooperation between their special forces and to share knowledge and experience, the ministry said in a statement.
Turkey and Azerbaijan held joint live fire drills in Baku earlier this year.
Ankara last year backed Azerbaijan’s effort to drive ethnic Armenian forces out of swathes of territory they had controlled since the 1990s in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region.