Like several other Turkmen FSA units, the Muntasir Billah Brigade moved at least part of its forces from Aleppo city to support the Turkish-led Operation Euphrates Shield in November 2016. This further weakened the last rebel resistance in the city, which was fully retaken by government forces in the following December. A senior official of the Muntasir Billah Brigade justified the retreat by arguing that the rebel defeat in Aleppo had become inevitable anyway. The group arrested three Syrian Army soldiers near al-Bab in May 2017, reportedly to prevent them from looting a village. In early 2018, the militia took part in Operation Olive Branch which resulted in the conquest of Afrin Canton from the SDF. After the capture of Afrin city, the Muntasir Billah Brigade distributed 300 tons of sugar among the local populace. The group claimed that the sugar had been captured from the "black market storage room of the PYD" and this proved that "the Turkish army and the Free Syrian Army, have come here [Afrin] to put an end to [the PYD's] oppression". On the other side, the pro-PYD Hawar News Agency accused the unit and allied groups of looting antiquities in the Mobata district.