Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade

Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade
Исламская международная миротворческая бригада
Leaders	Ibn al-Khattab † Shamil Basayev †
Dates of operation	1998–2002
Headquarters	Grozny, Chechnya
Active regions	Chechnya Dagestan
Ideology	Islamic fundamentalism Separatism
Size	1,000–3,000[1]
Part of	Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan
Allies	Special Purpose Islamic Regiment
Opponents	Russia  Dagestan
Battles and wars	Chechen–Russian conflict War of Dagestan (main) Second Chechen War
Designated as a terrorist group by	Bahrain[2]  Iraq[3]  United States[4]

The Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (Russian: Исламская международная миротворческая бригада; abbreviated IIPB), also known as the Islamic International Brigade, the Islamic Peacekeeping Army, was the name of an international Islamist mujahideen organization,^[5][6][7] founded in 1998. IIPB was designated a terrorist entity by the United States in February 2003.^[4]

History[]

The unit was composed of between 400 and 1,500 militants, most of them Dagestanis (mainly Avars and Darginians), as well as Chechens, Arabs, Turks, Azeris and other foreign fighters.^[1][8]

Its Emirs (leaders) were the Arab Mujahid Ibn Al-Khattab and Chechen Shamil Basayev, and was active in the War in Dagestan where many of its members were killed or captured by Russian forces. Most of its remaining members fought in the Second Chechen War, in which its former leaders died (Khattab in March 2002 and Basayev in July 2006)

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