Kurdistan Brigades

Kurdistan Brigades
(Kurdish: کەتیبەکانی کوردستان)
LeadersDilshad Kalari (Unknown to Unknown): Very little is known about Kalari although some sources believe him to be the operational leader of AQKB. Abdullah Hassan al-Surani (2007 to Unknown): Surani has released public statements of behalf of AQKB and is believed to be the group’s official spokesman.
Dates of operationMarch 2007–2010
HeadquartersKurdistan Mountains near Iranian border
IdeologyIslamic extremism
Salafist Qutbism
Salafist Jihadism
Wahhabism
Anti-Zionism
Part of al-Qaeda
Allies
OpponentsState opponents

Non-state opponents

Battles and warsthe Iraq War and
the Global War on Terrorism
Designated as a terrorist group by United States

The Kurdistan Brigades, also known as al-Qaeda in Kurdistan or al-Qaeda's Kurdish Brigades, are a militant Islamist organization, primarily active in the northern Iran–Iraq border. It is the Kurdish branch of al-Qaeda that has launched several attacks on the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq. After 2010, the group largely faded into obscurity, and there is little verifiable information about its current activities.

Formation

AQKB was founded in 2007, after the apparent disbandment of Ansar al-Islam, another al-Qaeda-affiliated group. The group is considered to be relatively small, but it has camps in the Iranian towns of Mariwan and Sanandaj.

Attacks

The group has launched several attacks, including its largest one being against KRG's Ministry of Interior in Erbil that killed 19 people in May 2007. AQKB killed 7 border guards and one PUK security officer in Penjwan in July 2007. In September 2010, two police officers were hurt by a failed suicide attack in Sulaymaniyah.


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