Azerbaijan is planning its accession to the Islamic Military Alliance which is called an analog of NATO a number of mass media.

As haqqin.az  reported quoting dunyanews.tv, together with Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Indonesia made  decision to join the organization increasing the number of the countries of the military block to 42.

For the first time the idea of creation of Islamic military alliance was announced in 2005 by the then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. However, the actual implementation of this idea was carried out in Saudi Arabia due to the need of fight against ISIL.