Liwa Aqab al-Islami لواء العقاب الإسلامي | |
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Leaders | Saddam al-Khalifah Rashid Tukwa |
Dates of operation | Unknown-December 2014 |
Headquarters | Qasr Ibn Wardan, Hama Governorate, Syria |
Active regions | Northwestern Syria |
Ideology | Islamism |
Allies | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Jaysh al-Sham Jabhat al-Nusra (Until 2014) |
Opponents | Syria Syrian Revolutionaries Front Jabhat al-Nusra (2014) |
Battles and wars | Syrian Civil War |
Liwa Aqab al-Islami or the "Islamic Punishment Brigade" was an armed Syrian Salafi Jihadist rebel group based in northwestern Syria primarily in the Hama Governorate, held close ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, including its leadership allegedly secretly pledging allegiance to ISIL, and carried out public executions and amputations, as well as enforcing Islamic law until it was forcibly dissolved by the al-Nusra Front in December 2014 due to its association with ISIL.