Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business. The listed groups appear in chronological order of designation.

For updates to the FTO list, visit http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm. For fact sheets on the FTOs, visit http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2013/index.htm

› Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) › Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) › Aum Shinrikyo (AUM) › Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) › Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) (IG) › HAMAS › Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) › Hizballah › Kahane Chai (Kach) › Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (Kongra-Gel) › Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) › National Liberation Army (ELN) › Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) › Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) › Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) › PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC) › Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) › Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N) › Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) › Shining Path (SL) › Al-Qa‘ida (AQ) › Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) › Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) › Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) › Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) › Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMB) › Asbat al-Ansar (AAA) › Al-Qa‘ida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

› Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA) › Jemaah Islamiya (JI) › Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) › Ansar al-Islam (AAI) › Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) › Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) › Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (formerly al-Qa’ida in Iraq) › Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) › Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B) › Al-Shabaab › Revolutionary Struggle (RS) › Kata’ib Hizballah (KH) › Al-Qa‘ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) › Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HUJI) › Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) › Jundallah › Army of Islam (AOI) › Indian Mujahedeen (IM) › Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT) › Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB) › Haqqani Network (HQN) › Ansar al-Dine (AAD) › Boko Haram › Ansaru › Al-Mulathamun Battalion › Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi (AAS-B) › Ansar al-Sharia in Darnah (AAS-D) › Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia (AAS-T) › Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis › Al-Nusrah Front › Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC

Source:  US National Counterterrorism Center

By

Robert Williams

Editor in Chief