Salah al-Din Brigade (Iraq)

Salah al-Din Brigade
لواء صلاح الدين
Founder	Yazan Al-Jubouri
Leaders	Asham Al-Jubouri
Dates of operation	2014–present
Country	Iraq
Size	3,000
Part of	Popular Mobilization Forces
Opponents	ISIS
Battles and wars	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). 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.

References

"تكليف قائد جديد للواء (51) في قيادة قاطع عمليات صلاح الدين.. وثيقة". baghdadtoday.news (in Arabic). Retrieved 7 September 2022.
"لواء 51 في الحشد الشعبي يتمكن من تفكيك سيارة مفخخة في صلاح الدين". تودي نيوز – Today News. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
عبدالرحمن النجار (22 November 2016). "«فورين بوليسي»: لواء صلاح الدين.. «أهل الخير» من سنة العراق" [Iraqs Good Sunni]. www.sasapost.com (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
TechTeam. "مركز رعاية الشباب | امر لواء صلاح الدين يشكر جهود مركز رعاية الشباب في اقامتها الندوة الجماهيرية بمناسبة مرور عام على فتوى المرجعية". الأمانة العامة للعتبة الحسينية المقدسة – مركز رعاية الشباب (in Arabic). Retrieved 7 September 2022.
"اللواء 51 في الحشد الشعبي ينفذ عملية امنية لتامين الحدود بين صلاح الدين ونينوى". قناة الثانية الفضائية (in Arabic). Retrieved 7 September 2022.

Popular Mobilization Forces

In Iraq

People

General commanders	Falih Alfayyadh Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis †
Secondary commanders	Hadi al-Amiri (Badr) Muqtada al-Sadr (Peace Companies) Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir (Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda)
Former commanders	Akram al-Kaabi (Harakat al-Nujaba) Qais Khazali (AAH)

Factions

Current	Badr Organization Liwa al-Tafuf Liwa Ali al-Akbar Peace Companies Babylon Brigade Kata'ib al-Imam Ali Kataib Rouh Allah Issa Ibn Miriam Liwa al-Shabak Salah al-Din Brigade Jaysh al-Mu'ammal Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda Saraya al-Jihad Saraya al-Khorasani Sinjar Resistance Units Quwat al-Shaheed al-Sadr
Former	Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Kata'ib Hezbollah Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada

Other personals

Media

Current	Team Media War (general) Alghadeer TV (Badr)

Former	Alahad TV (AAH) Alnujaba TV (Nujaba) Aletejah TV (KH)

Military activities

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