The Al-Khansaa Brigade (Arabic: لواء الخنساء) was an all-women police or religious enforcement unit of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), operating in its de facto capitals of Raqqa and Mosul.

[4] Formed in 2014 and initially consisting of around sixty women, the brigade was used to enforce Sharia law, mainly in IS-occupied Raqqa and Mosul, but also in refugee camps as IS territory collapsed.

[6] It was unique in the Muslim world as, in other regimes with similar systems of religious police (such as Saudi Arabia), only men are permitted to enforce hisbah among women.

[4] In April 2017 the group released a recruitment video for female hackers claiming to have hacked over 100 social media accounts over the previous month.

[13] According to Iraqi News, in 2017 Al-Khansaa members were used as snipers to defend IS-held Mosul against assaults by Iraq's security forces.