Salah al-Din Brigade | |
Native Name: | لواء صلاح الدين |
Founder: | Yazan Al-Jubouri |
Leaders: | Asham Al-Jubouri |
Active: | 2014–present |
Country: | Iraq |
Size: | 3,000 |
Partof: | Popular Mobilization Forces |
Battles: | War in Iraq (2013–2017) |
Salah al-Din Brigade or 51 Brigade in Popular Mobilization Forces It is a Sunni armed group that fights alongside Shiite groups, supported by Iran, that was created to fight ISIS and was formed specifically for the battle of Mosul (2016–17).[1] [2] The matter began in 2014, when Yazan received a call from Baghdad asking him to meet with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and he had obtained permission from the Popular Mobilization Command to begin forming the first Sunni faction within the ranks of the Shiite factions.[3] [4] [5]