Department of State’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)

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Date: 
January 26, 2012

Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State. As of September 2011:

List of State Department Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations:

  1. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
  2. Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
  3. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMS)
  4. Al-Shabaab
  5. Ansar al-Islam (AAI)
  6. Asbat al-Ansar
  7. Aum Shinrikyo (AUM)
  8. Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
  9. Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA)
  10. Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
  11. Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)
  12. HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
  13. Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
  14. Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
  15. Hizballah (Party of God)
  16. Islamic Jihad Union (IJU)
  17. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
  18. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
  19. Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI)
  20. Kahane Chai (Kach)
  21. Kata'ib Hizballah (KH)
  22. Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, KADEK)
  23. Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
  24. Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ)
  25. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
  26. Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
  27. Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
  28. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
  29. National Liberation Army (ELN)
  30. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
  31. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
  32. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
  33. PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
  34. al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI)
  35. al-Qa’ida (AQ)
  36. al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
  37. al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (formerly GSPC)
  38. Real IRA (RIRA)
  39. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
  40. Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N)
  41. Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
  42. Revolutionary Struggle (RS)
  43. Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
  44. United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
  45. Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI)
  46. Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
  47. Jundallah
  48. Army of Islam (AOI)
  49. Indian Mujahideen (IM)