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Russia Says it Hopes Azerbaijan and Iran Resolve ‘Frictions’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Moscow, Russia March 29, 2023. (Reuters)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Moscow, Russia March 29, 2023. (Reuters)
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Russia Says it Hopes Azerbaijan and Iran Resolve ‘Frictions’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Moscow, Russia March 29, 2023. (Reuters)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Moscow, Russia March 29, 2023. (Reuters)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that he hoped what he called "frictions" between Azerbaijan and Iran would soon be resolved.

Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran, which has a large population of ethnic Azeris in its northwest, have been strained in recent months after Baku announced plans to open formal diplomatic ties with Israel.

Azerbaijan's State Security Service said on Wednesday that it was investigating "a terror attack" after a lawmaker with strong anti-Iranian views was wounded in a gun attack at his home.

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Pentagon is Sending About 3,000 More Active-duty Troops to US-Mexico Border

FILE PHOTO: A US military member stands near a section of the border wall between the United States and Mexico, after the visit of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, February 3, 2025. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A US military member stands near a section of the border wall between the United States and Mexico, after the visit of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, February 3, 2025. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo
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Pentagon is Sending About 3,000 More Active-duty Troops to US-Mexico Border

FILE PHOTO: A US military member stands near a section of the border wall between the United States and Mexico, after the visit of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, February 3, 2025. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A US military member stands near a section of the border wall between the United States and Mexico, after the visit of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, February 3, 2025. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo

The Pentagon is sending about 3,000 more active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border as President Donald Trump seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration and fulfill a central promise of his campaign, US officials said Saturday.
His defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has ordered elements of a Stryker brigade combat team and a general support aviation battalion for the mission, the Pentagon announced. The forces will arrive along the nearly 2,000-mile border in the coming weeks, The Associated Press reported.
The Defense Department's statement did not specify the size of the deployment, but it was put at about 3,000 by the officials, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Strykers are medium-armored wheeled personnel carriers.
Already, about 9,200 US troops in total are at the southern border, including 4,200 deployed under federal orders and about 5,000 National Guard troops under the control of governors.
The new troops will “reinforce and expand current border security operations to seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States,” the Pentagon said.
Trump is determined to expand the military’s role in his effort to shut down the border and send detained migrants back to their home countries.
Military personnel have been sent to the border almost continuously since the 1990s to help address migration, drug trafficking and transnational crime.