The Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (Russian: Исламская международная миротворческая бригада; abbr.

IIPB was designated a terrorist entity by the United States in February 2003.

[4] 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 and other foreign fighters.

[1][7] Its Emirs were Ibn al-Khattab, Shamil Basayev who fought during the War in Dagestan.

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).