List of terrorist organisations
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This is a list of designated terrorist organizations by national governments, former governments and inter-governmental organizations, where the proscription has a significant impact on the group's activities. Many organizations that are accused of being a terrorist organization deny using terrorism
as a military tactic to achieve their goals, and there is no international consensus on the legal definition of terrorism
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This listing does not include states or governmental organizations, which are considered under state terrorism
, or unaffiliated individuals accused of terrorism, which are considered under lone wolf terrorism. This list also excludes groups that might be widely considered terrorist, but who are not officially so designated according to the criteria specified above.
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
as a military tactic to achieve their goals, and there is no international consensus on the legal definition of terrorism
Definition of terrorism
There is neither an academic nor an international legal consensus regarding the proper definition of the word "terrorism". Various legal systems and government agencies use different definitions of "terrorism". Moreover, the international community has been slow to formulate a universally agreed...
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This listing does not include states or governmental organizations, which are considered under state terrorism
State terrorism
State terrorism may refer to acts of terrorism conducted by a state against a foreign state or people. It can also refer to acts of violence by a state against its own people.-Definition:...
, or unaffiliated individuals accused of terrorism, which are considered under lone wolf terrorism. This list also excludes groups that might be widely considered terrorist, but who are not officially so designated according to the criteria specified above.
Organization | Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
EU European Union The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958... |
U.K. United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... |
Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... |
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Abu Nidal Organization | |||||||||
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African National Congress African National Congress The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a... |
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Al-Aqsa e.V. Al-Aqsa Foundation The al-Aqsa Foundation is an international charity with alleged ties to the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas. The head office of the foundation was located in Germany until it was closed by the German authorities in July 2002... |
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Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade | |||||||||
Al-Badr | |||||||||
al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya is an Egyptian Islamist movement, and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union and Egyptian governments... |
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Al Ghurabaa Al Ghurabaa Al Ghurabaa is a Muslim organization which, along with the The Saviour Sect, is widely believed to be the reformed Al-Muhajiroun after it disbanded in 2004 by order of Omar Bakri Muhammad. Other members include Abu Izzadeen and Abu Uzair.... |
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al-Haramain Foundation Al-Haramain Foundation Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation was a charity foundation, based in Saudi Arabia, alleged by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in a September 2004 press release to have "direct links" with Osama bin Laden... |
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Al Ittihad Al Islamia | |||||||||
al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad... |
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al-Qaeda in Iraq Al-Qaeda in Iraq Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a popular name for the Iraqi division of the international Salafi jihadi militant organization al-Qaeda. It is recognized as a part of the greater Iraqi insurgency.... |
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al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb The Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, previously known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat is a radical Islamist militia which aims to overthrow the Algerian government and institute an Islamic state. To that end, it is currently engaged in an insurgent campaign.The group... |
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Al-Shabaab | |||||||||
All Tripura Tiger Force All Tripura Tiger Force The All Tripura Tiger Force is an isolationist group from the Tripura region of India. It was founded on July 11, 1990, by a group of former Tripura National Volunteer members under the leadership of Ranjit Debbarma. The ATTF is currently considered a terrorist organization by India. The... |
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Ansar al-Islam Ansar al-Islam Ansar al-Islam is a Sunni Islamist group of Iraqis, promoting a radical interpretation of Islam, close to the official Saudi ideology of Wahhabism with strict application of Sharia. The group was formed in the northern provinces of Iraq near the Iranian border, and previously had established... |
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Ansar al-Sunna | |||||||||
Armed Islamic Group Armed Islamic Group The Armed Islamic Group is an Islamist organisation that wants to overthrow the Algerian government and replace it with an Islamic state... |
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Asbat al-Ansar | |||||||||
Aum Shinrikyo Aum Shinrikyo Aum Shinrikyo was a Japanese new religious movement. The group was founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984. The group gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.... |
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Babbar Khalsa Babbar Khalsa Babbar Khalsa , also known as Babbar Khalsa International , is a Sikh armed organisation based in India. Many consider the Babbar Khalsa a Resistance movement, and it played a prominent role in the Punjab insurgency. Babbar Khalsa International was created in 1978, after a number of Sikhs were... |
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Baluchistan Liberation Army | |||||||||
Caucasus Emirate Caucasus Emirate The Caucasus Emirate also known as the Caucasian Emirate is a self-proclaimed virtual state entity, partially successor to the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and was officially announced on October 31, 2007 by former President of Ichkeria Dokka Umarov, who became the first Emir... |
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Communist Party of India (Maoist) Communist Party of India (Maoist) The Communist Party of India is a Maoist political party in India which aims to overthrow the government of India through violent means. It was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the People's War, and the Maoist Communist Centre . The merger was announced to the public on October... |
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Communist Party of the Philippines Communist Party of the Philippines The Communist Party of the Philippines is a leading communist party in the Philippines. It remains an underground political organization since its founding on December 26, 1968 and has been operating in clandestine manner since its founding... / New People's Army New People's Army The New People's Army is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. It was formed on March 29, 1969. The Maoist NPA conducts its armed guerrilla struggle based on the strategical line of 'protracted people's war'.The NPA exacts so called "revolutionary taxes" from business owners... |
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Continuity Irish Republican Army Continuity Irish Republican Army The Continuity Irish Republican Army, otherwise known as the Continuity IRA and styling itself as Óglaigh na hÉireann, is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that aims to bring about a united Ireland. It emerged from a split in the Provisional IRA in 1986 but did not become active until... |
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Cumann na mBan Cumann na mBan Cumann na mBan is an Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation formed in Dublin on 2 April 1914 as an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers... |
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Deendar Anjuman Deendar Anjuman Deendar Anjuman is an Islamic organization based in Hyderabad, India. This organization is more bent towards Barelvi school of thought and believes the preaching of Islam among the non-muslims through the grass-root level. The followers of Deendar are often confused with the Qadiyani sect... |
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Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist, secular political and military organization. It is also frequently referred to as the Democratic Front, or al-Jabha al-Dimuqratiyah... |
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Egyptian Islamic Jihad | |||||||||
Euskadi ta Askatasuna | |||||||||
Fatah Fatah Fataḥ is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization , a multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the left-wing of the spectrum; it is mainly nationalist, although not predominantly socialist. Its official goals are found... |
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Fianna na hÉireann | |||||||||
Gama'a al-Islamiyya | |||||||||
GRAPO | |||||||||
Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front The Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front is an Islamic militant organization which follows the Büyük Doğu ideology of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, a well-known Turkish author, poet and Islamist ideologue... |
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Hamas Hamas Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades... |
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Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami | |||||||||
Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami (Bangladesh) | |||||||||
Harakat ul-Mujahidin | |||||||||
Harakat-Ul-Mujahideen/Alami | |||||||||
Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin | |||||||||
Hezbollah | |||||||||
Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Sunni. pan-Islamic political organisation but keeps it open for all including shias,some of its beliefs are against sunni school of thought, whose goal is for all Muslim countries to unify as an Islamic state or caliphate ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph... |
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Hizbul Mujahideen Hizbul Mujahideen Hizbul Mujahideen , founded by Ahsan Dar in 1989, is a Kashmiri militant group active in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir since 1989. Their headquarters are located in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. It is believed the group al-Badr, derived from Hizbul Mujahideen... |
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Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development The Holy Land Foundation was the largest Islamic charity in the United States. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, it was originally known as Occupied Land Fund.... |
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Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council The Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council is a militant organization operating in Meghalaya, India. It claims to be a representative of the Khasi-Jaintia tribal people, and its aim is to free the Meghalaya from the alleged Garo domination and the non-tribal outsiders... |
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International Sikh Youth Federation International Sikh Youth Federation The International Sikh Youth Federation is banned under British, Indian, Canadian and American terrorism legislations.- Bannings :In February 2001, the United Kingdom banned twenty-one groups, including the ISYF, under a new terrorism law.... |
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Irish National Liberation Army Irish National Liberation Army The Irish National Liberation Army or INLA is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group that was formed on 8 December 1974. Its goal is to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a socialist united Ireland.... |
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Irish People's Liberation Organisation Irish People's Liberation Organisation The Irish People's Liberation Organisation was a small Irish republican paramilitary organization which was formed in 1986 by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army whose factions coalesced in the aftermath of the supergrass trials... |
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Irish Republican Army | |||||||||
Islamic Army of Aden | |||||||||
Islamic Jihad Union Islamic Jihad Union The Islamic Jihad Union , also known as Islamic Jihad Group , is a terrorist organization which splintered from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan , and has conducted attacks in Uzbekistan and attempted attacks in Germany.... |
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Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a militant Islamist group formed in 1991 by the Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev, and former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani—both ethnic Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley... |
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Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine known in the West as simply Palestinian Islamic Jihad , is a small Palestinian militant organization. The group has been labelled as a terrorist group by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia and Israel... |
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Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades is the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist fundamentalist socio-political organisation Hamas. Created in 1992, under the direction of Yahya Ayyash, the primary objective of the group was to build a coherent military organisation to support the goals of... |
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Jaish-e-Mohammed Jaish-e-Mohammed Jaish-e-Mohammed is a Pakistani-based, militant Islamic group established by Maulana Masood Azhar in March 2000... |
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Jamaat Ul-Furquan Jamaat Ul-Furquan Jamaat Ul-Furquan is an Islamist splinter group of Khuddam ul-Islam banned under United Kingdom terrorism legislation.... |
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Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen was a Islamist organisation operating in Bangladesh... |
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Jamiat ul-Ansar | |||||||||
Jamiat-e Islami Jamiat-e Islami Jamiat-e Islami , is an Islamic political party in Afghanistan along the line of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. Jamiat-e Islami means "Islamic society" in the Persian language and is also known as just Jamiat for short. Jamiat is the oldest Islamic political party in Afghanistan... |
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Jemaah Islamiya | |||||||||
Jund Ash Sham Jund Ash Sham Jund Ash Sham aka Jund al-Sham is an anti-Fatah Sunni Muslim group formed in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in 2004 and is considered a splinter group of Osbat al-Nour... |
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Jundullah | |||||||||
Kach and Kahane Chai Kach and Kahane Chai Kach was a far-right political party in Israel. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Jewish nationalist ideology , the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures... |
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Khalistan Commando Force Khalistan Commando Force The Khalistan Commando Force or KCF is a private paramilitary organization operating in the Indian state of Punjab. According to the US State Department, and the Assistant Inspector General of the Punjab Police Intelligence Division, the KCF was responsible for the deaths of thousands in India,... |
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Khuddam ul-Islam Khuddam ul-Islam Khuddam ul-Islam is an Islamist militant group. It is considered to be a splinter group of the extremist group Jaish-e-Mohammed . They have been banned from the United Kingdom and said to be politically aligned with Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman's faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam... |
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Kurdistan Freedom Falcons Kurdistan Freedom Falcons The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons , also known as the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks or the Kurdish Vengeance Brigade, is a militant group that has committed attacks throughout Turkey, operating in southern Turkey and northern Iraq with a goal of securing Kurdish secession from Turkey... |
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Kurdistan Workers' Party Kurdistan Workers' Party The Kurdistan Workers' Party , commonly known as PKK, also known as KGK and formerly known as KADEK or KONGRA-GEL , is a Kurdish organization which has since 1984 been fighting an armed struggle against the Turkish state for an autonomous Kurdistan and greater cultural and political rights... |
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Lashkar-e-Toiba Lashkar-e-Toiba Lashkar-e-Taiba – also transliterated as Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-i-Taiba, Lashkar Taiba or LeT – is one of the largest and most active militant Islamist terrorist organizations in South Asia, operating mainly from Pakistan.It was founded by Hafiz Muhammad... |
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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is a militant organization. Formed in 1996, it has operated in Pakistan since Sipah-e-Sahaba activist Riaz Basra broke away from the SSP over differences with his seniors... |
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a separatist militant organization formerly based in northern Sri Lanka. Founded in May 1976 by Vellupillai Prabhakaran, it waged a violent secessionist and nationalist campaign to create an independent state in the north and east of Sri Lanka for Tamil... (LTTE) |
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Libyan Islamic Fighting Group Libyan Islamic Fighting Group Libyan Islamic Movement formerly known as The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group also known as Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya is a group active in Libya which played a key role in deposing Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime, allying itself with the National Transitional Council.However... |
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Loyalist Volunteer Force Loyalist Volunteer Force The Loyalist Volunteer Force is a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed by Billy Wright in 1996 when he and the Portadown unit of the Ulster Volunteer Force's Mid-Ulster Brigade was stood down by the UVF leadership. He had been the commander of the Mid-Ulster Brigade. The... |
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Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group The Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group or Moroccan Islamic Fighting Group is a Sunni Islamist terrorist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda. It is sometimes referred to as GICM after its French name Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain... |
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Mujahedin-e Khalq | |||||||||
Muslim Brotherhood Muslim Brotherhood The Society of the Muslim Brothers is the world's oldest and one of the largest Islamist parties, and is the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states. It was founded in 1928 in Egypt by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna and by the late 1940s had an... |
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National Democratic Front of Bodoland National Democratic Front of Bodoland The National Democratic Front of Bodoland, also known as NDFB or the Bodo Security Force, is a terrorist outfit which seeks to obtain a sovereign Bodoland for the Bodo people in Assam, India. The founder of the organization, Ransaigra Nabla Daimary, alias Ranjan Daimary has been arrested and... |
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National Liberation Army National Liberation Army (Colombia) National Liberation Army is a revolutionary, avowed Marxist guerrilla group that has been operating in several regions of Colombia since 1964.... |
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National Liberation Front of Tripura National Liberation Front of Tripura The National Liberation Front of Tripura is a Tripuri nationalist militant organization based in Tripura, India.The NLFT seeks to secede from India and establish an independent Tripuri state, and has actively participated in the Tripura Rebellion... |
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Nuclei Territoriali Antimperialisti Nuclei Territoriali Antimperialisti The Nuclei Territoriali Antimperalisti is an Italian left-wing revolutionary organisation. It was founded in 1995 in Fruili, Italy. The extremist group is a secretive organization with a radical left-wing agenda. They primarily support communist and Marxist politics. There goal is to change Italy... |
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Orange Volunteers Orange Volunteers The Orange Volunteers or Orange Volunteer Force is an Ulster loyalist and Protestant fundamentalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.-Origins:... |
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Palestine Liberation Front Palestine Liberation Front The Palestine Liberation Front is a Palestinian militant group, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Canada, the European Union and the USA. It is presently led by Dr. Wasel Abu Yousef.-Origins:... |
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Palestine Liberation Organization Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization which was created in 1964. It is recognized as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" by the United Nations and over 100 states with which it holds diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed... |
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad | |||||||||
People's Congress of Ichkeria and Dagestan | |||||||||
People's Liberation Army of Manipur People's Liberation Army of Manipur The People's Liberation Army was founded by N. Bisheswar Singh on September 25, 1978. It is a separatist armed revolutionary group fighting for a separate independent socialist state of Manipur. It was the first organization from Manipur to have been trained by the China's People Liberation Army... |
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People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak | |||||||||
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist organisation founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization , the largest being Fatah... |
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine- General Command |
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Real IRA | |||||||||
Red Brigades for the construction of the Combative Communist Party Red Brigades The Red Brigades was a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organisation, based in Italy, which was responsible for numerous violent incidents, assassinations, and robberies during the so-called "Years of Lead"... |
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Red Hand Commando | |||||||||
Red Hand Defenders Red Hand Defenders The Red Hand Defenders is a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed in 1998 by loyalists who opposed the Belfast Agreement and the loyalist ceasefires. Its members were drawn mostly from the Ulster Defence Association and Loyalist Volunteer Force... |
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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army is a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization based in Colombia which is involved in the ongoing Colombian armed conflict, currently involved in drug dealing and crimes against the civilians..FARC-EP is a peasant army which... |
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Revolutionary Nuclei Revolutionary Nuclei Revolutionary Nuclei , also known as Revolutionary Cells, is a far-left terrorist group in Greece. RN first appeared with a bomb attack on a Hellenic Coast Guard facility in Piraeus on 11 May 1997... |
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Revolutionary Organization 17 November Revolutionary Organization 17 November Revolutionary Organization 17 November , was a Marxist urban guerrilla organization formed in 1975 and believed to have been disbanded in 2002 after the arrest and trial of a... |
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Revolutionary Struggle Revolutionary Struggle Revolutionary Struggle is a Greek rebel group known for its attacks on Greek government buildings and the American embassy in Athens... |
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Saor Éire Saor Éire (1967-1975) Saor Éire was an armed, radical Irish Republican organisation composed of Trotskyists and ex-IRA members. It took its name from a similar organisation of the 1930s.... |
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Saviour Sect The Saved Sect The Saved Sect , formerly and more generally known as The Saviour Sect, is a Muslim organization that operated in the United Kingdom from its formation in November 2005 until the British government proscribed it on 17 July 2006... |
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Shining Path Shining Path Shining Path is a Maoist guerrilla terrorist organization in Peru. The group never refers to itself as "Shining Path", and as several other Peruvian groups, prefers to be called the "Communist Party of Peru" or "PCP-SL" in short... |
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Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan is a militant Sunni Deobandi organization, and a formerly registered Pakistani political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi its stated goal is to primarily to deter major Shia influence in Pakistan in the wake of the Iranian... |
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Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage | |||||||||
Stichting Al Aqsa Al-Aqsa Foundation The al-Aqsa Foundation is an international charity with alleged ties to the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas. The head office of the foundation was located in Germany until it was closed by the German authorities in July 2002... |
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Students Islamic Movement of India Students Islamic Movement of India The Students Islamic Movement of India is an Islamic student organization that was formed in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, in April 1977. The stated mission of SIMI is the ‘liberation of India’ from Western materialistic cultural influence and to convert its Muslim society to live according to Muslim... |
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Supreme Military Majlis ul-Shura of the United Mujahideen Forces of Caucasus | |||||||||
Takfir wal-Hijra Takfir wal-Hijra Jama'at al-Muslimin , popularly known as Takfir wal-Hijra , was a radical Islamist group led by Shukri Mustafa, which emerged in Egypt in the 1960s as an offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood, inspired by Sayyid Qutb.The group was... |
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Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi is a Pakistani militant group whose objective is to enforce Sharia law in the country. The rebel group took over much of Swat in 2007... |
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Tamil Nadu Liberation Army Tamil Nadu Liberation Army Tamil Nadu Liberation Army is a small militant separatist movement in India. It seeks an independent nation for the Tamil people, and first appeared in the 1980s, when the Indian Peacekeeping Force was sent to Sri Lanka. It had its roots in the Naxalite movement, and was headed by Thamizharasan,... |
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Ulster Defence Association Ulster Defence Association The Ulster Defence Association is the largest although not the deadliest loyalist paramilitary and vigilante group in Northern Ireland. It was formed in September 1971 and undertook a campaign of almost twenty-four years during "The Troubles"... |
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Ulster Volunteer Force | |||||||||
United Liberation Front of Asom United Liberation Front of Asom The United Liberation Front of Asom is a separatist group from Assam, among many other such groups in North-East India. It seeks to establish a sovereign Assam via an armed struggle in the Assam Conflict... |
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United National Liberation Front United National Liberation Front The United National Liberation Front is an insurgent group in the state of Manipur in the north-east of India. The UNLF aims to establish an independent socialist Manipur... |
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United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia was created as an umbrella organization of regional far-right... |
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Vanguards of Conquest Vanguards of Conquest Founded as a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad operating in Somalia in 1993, the Vanguards of Conquest were a separate faction that eventually folded back into the group under the leadership of Ayman al-Zawahiri.... |
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World Tamil Movement World Tamil Movement World Tamil Movement is a non-profit organization created in 1986 run by Canadians of ethnic Tamil heritage. Its president was Sitha Sithampalam until June, 2008. The organisation has functioned as a community group that offers services such as translation, vocational training and a library for... |
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- U.K. List of Proscribed GroupsTerrorism Act 2000The Terrorism Act 2000 is the first of a number of general Terrorism Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It superseded and repealed the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1989 and the Northern Ireland Act 1996...
- U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist OrganizationsU.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations"Foreign Terrorist Organization" is a designation of non-United States-based organizations declared terrorist by the United States Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act...
- List of charities accused of ties to terrorism
- Government of India designated terrorist organisations
- List of non-state groups accused of terrorism
- List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
External links
- START Global Terrorism Database (also contains data from the defunct MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
- US Department of State's Foreign Terrorist Organizations, as of January 19, 2010
- US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 'What you need to know about U.S. Sanctions'
- US Department of State Terrorist Designation Lists
- US Department of State Country Reports on Terrorism 2008
- European Union list of terrorist groups and individuals, 2007
- European Union list of terrorist groups and individuals, 2009
- Official text of the Terrorism Act 2000 as enacted
- Home office independent reviews of the Act
- U.K. List of Proscribed Groups
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