However, the creation of the Kurdistan Brigades was announced with a video called "Back to the Mountains" released in March 2007 by Al-Qaeda.

[7][8] The group is considered to be relatively small, but it has camps in the Iranian Kurdish towns of Mariwan and Sanandaj.

[9] In April 2014, the Kurdistan Brigades released a statement where they criticised the Islamic State and called on Kurds to not join it.

[6] 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.

[9] AQKB killed 7 border guards and one PUK security officer in Penjwan in July 2007.