Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade


The Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade, also known as the Islamic International Brigade, the Islamic Peacekeeping Army, was the name of an international Islamist terrorist mujahideen organization, founded in 1998.

History

The unit was composed of between 400 and 1,500 militants, most of them Dagestanis, as well as Chechens, Arabs, Turks, Azeris and other foreign fighters.
Its Emirs 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