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List of terrorist groups

Groups considered by many to be terrorist and the countries where they are/were active.

Table of contents

1 Islamists 1.1 Islamist Front Groups 2 Non-Islamist Palestinian 3 Extremist Zionistss 4 Northern Ireland 4.2 Republicans 4.3 Loyalists 5 Other separatists and anti-imperialists 6 Leftists 7 Neo-Nazis and white-supremacists 8 Anti-Communists 9 Others 10 See also 11 External links

Islamists

• Abu Sayyaf - Philippines
• Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya - Egypt
• al-Qaida - international
• Ansar al-Islam - Iraq
• Armed Islamic Group - Algeria and Europe
• Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Egypt
• Hamas - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• Harakut ul-Ansar (HUA) - Pakistan and Kashmir
• Hezbollah - Lebanon
• Islamic Movement of Central Asia - Central Asia
• Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan
• Jemaah Islamiyah - Southeast Asia
• Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• Maktab al-Khidamar - Afghanistan
• Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group - Morocco and Spain
• Muslim Brotherhood - international
• People Against Gangsterism and Drugs - South Africa
• Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat - Algeria

Islamist Front Groups

• Al Barakaat
• Benevolence International Foundation
• Global Relief Foundation
• Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
• Konsojaya Trading Company

Non-Islamist Palestinian

• Palestine Liberation Organization - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel (used the name Black September during the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre)
• Abu Nidal Organization - international (used the name of Black September since 1974)
• Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP-Hawatmeh) - Syria/Lebanon/West Bank
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC) - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• Palestine Liberation Front
• Fatah/Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• The Popular Resistance Committees - Gaza Strip

Extremist Zionistss

• Irgun - British mandate of Palestine (disbanded)
• Jewish Defense League - United States
• Kach - Israel and United States
• Stern gang - British mandate of Palestine (disbanded)

Northern Ireland

Republicans

• Continuity Irish Republican Army
• Fenian Brotherhood (disbanded)
• Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Real Irish Republican Army
• Irish National Liberation Army

Loyalists

• Loyalist Volunteer Force (disbanded)
• Orange Volunteers
• Ulster Freedom Fighters
• Ulster Volunteer Force

Other separatists and anti-imperialists

• East Turkestan Islamic Movement - Central Asia and China
• ETA (Basque Fatherland and Liberty) - Spain and southern France
• Front de Libération du Quebec - Canada
• Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - Turkey
• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - Sri Lanka
• Los Macheteros - Puerto Rico
• Mau Mau - Kenya (disbanded)
• National Front for the Liberation of Corsica (FLNC) - France

Leftists

• Action Directe - France
• Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) - Lebanon and Armenia
• Chukaku-Ha - Japan
• Japanese Red Army (Sekigun) - Japan
• GRAPO - Spain
• Khmer Rouge - Cambodia (disbanded)
• Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front - Chile
• Montoneros - Argentina (disbanded)
• National Liberation Army - ELN in Colombia
• November 17 (17N) - Greece
• Red Army Faction (popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang) - Germany (disbanded)
• Red Brigades (Brigade Rosse) - Italy
• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - Colombia
• Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) - Peru
• Symbionese Liberation Army - USA (disbanded)
• Weathermen - USA (disbanded)

Neo-Nazis and white-supremacists

• Boeremag - South Africa
• Combat 18 - United Kingdom
• Creativity Movement - USA
• Ku Klux Klan - USA, United Kingdom
• National Socialist Movement - United Kingdom
• The Order - USA (disbanded)
• Organisation de l'Armée Secrète - France, Algeria (disbanded)

Anti-Communists

• Alianza Anticomunista Argentina - Argentina
• Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia - Colombia
• Contras - Nicaragua (disbanded)
• Death squads - El Salvador

Others

• The Angry Brigade - United Kingdom (anarchists) (disbanded)
• Army for the Liberation of Rwanda - Rwanda (Hutu emancipatory; possibly genocidal)
• Aum Supreme Truth (Aum Shinrikyo) - Japan (homicidal religious cult)
• Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood - Yugoslavia
• Earth Liberation Front - USA (radical environmentalist) - avoids harming people or animals, but is considered by the FBI to be a terrorist group
• EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kypriakou Agonistov) - Cyprus (anti-Turkish, pro-Enosis)
• Interahamwe - Rwanda
• Revolutionary United Front - Sierra Leonean rebels
• Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the nation") - South Africa

See also

• List of organizations
• List of guerrilla movements
• Foreign Terrorist Organizations designated by the United States Department of State

External links

• UK Home Office list of terrorist groups
• US State Department list of foreign terrorist organisations

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