Islamic International Brigade

Infobox War Faction
name=Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade
war=the 1999 invasion of Dagestan


caption= Flag of the Majlis of Muslims of Ichkeria and Dagestan
active=1998-1999
leaders=Ibn al-Khattab
Shamil Basayev
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headquarters=Chechnya
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strength= Between 400 and 1,500 [ [http://www.investigativeproject.org/profile/153 Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade] ] [ [http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2005/issue4/jv9no4a4.html CHECHNYA, WAHHABISM AND THE INVASION OF DAGESTAN] ]
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opponents=Russia
battles=The Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (also known as The Islamic International Brigade, the Islamic Peacekeeping Army, IIPB) was the name of an international unit of Islamic militants founded in 1998.

The unit was composed of between 400 to 1,500 militants, most of them Dagestanis (mainly Avars and Darginians), as well as Chechens, Arabs, Turks and other foreign fighters. [ [http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2005/issue4/jv9no4a4.html CHECHNYA, WAHHABISM AND THE INVASION OF DAGESTAN] ] ["The Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror" by Paul Murphy] [ [http://users.jyu.fi/~aphamala/pe/2003/tsets-5.htm The Dagestan Provocation] ]

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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