United States Department of State list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

**Foreign Terrorist Organization** (**FTO**) is a title given by the United States government to groups outside of the United States said to be involved in what the government says are terrorist activities. The United States secretary of state uses section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (INA) to give this title. Most groups on the list are Islamist extremist groups. The rest are nationalist/separatist groups or Marxist militant groups.

## Groups called FTOs

the groups are called Foreign Terrorist Organizations:
|scope="col" style="white-space: nowrap;" width="130px"|Date added|scope="col" style="white-space: nowrap;"|Name|scope="col"|Region|scope="col"|Area of operations|scope="col"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="13"|October 8, 1997|Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)|Asia|Philippines|rowspan="4"|62 FR 52650||||
|Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)|Middle East|Palestinian Territories||||||||
|Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)|Asia|Pakistan||||||||
|Hezbollah|rowspan="2"|Middle East|Lebanon|||||||
|Kongra-Gel (formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party) (KGK)|Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria|Formerly PKK, KADEK. 62 FR 52650.||||||||
|Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)|Asia|Sri Lanka, India|rowspan="8"|62 FR 52650||||||
|National Liberation Army (ELN)|South America|Colombia||||||||
|Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)|rowspan="5"|Middle East|rowspan="4"|Palestinian Territories||||||
|Islamic Jihad Group||||||||||
|Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)||||||||||
|PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)||||||||||
|Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)|Turkey|||||||||
|Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)|South America|Peru||||||||
|October 8, 1999|al-Qa'ida|Worldwide|Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia|64 FR 55112||||||
|September 25, 2000|Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)|Asia|Uzbekistan, Afghanistan|||||||
|May 16, 2001|Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA)|Europe|Ireland, United Kingdom|Associated with 32 County Sovereignty Movement (32CSM)||||||
|rowspan="2"|December 26, 2001|Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of Mohammed) (JEM)|rowspan="2"|Asia|rowspan="2"|Pakistan||||
|Lashkar-e Tayyiba (Army of the Righteous) (LET)|Later amended to include the Milli Muslim League.|||||||||
|rowspan="3"|March 27, 2002|Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades|rowspan="2"|Middle East|Palestinian Territories|rowspan="2"||||
|Asbat an-Ansar|Lebanon|||||||||
|al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb|Africa, Middle East|Algeria, Mali, Niger|(formerly GSPC)|||||||
|August 9, 2002|Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA)|rowspan="3"|Asia|Philippines||||||
|October 23, 2002|Jemaah Islamiyah (JI)|Indonesia|Also in Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore|||||||
|January 30, 2003|Lashkar i Jhangvi|Pakistan|rowspan="3"|||||||
|March 22, 2004|Ansar al-Islam|Middle East|Iraq|||||||
|July 13, 2004|Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)|Europe|Ireland, United Kingdom|||||||
|December 17, 2004|Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (formerly Al-Qaeda in Iraq aka Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR))|Worldwide|Iraq, Syria, Libya, Nigeria|Before were the Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'al-Jihad, JTJ, al-Zarqawi Network. Al-Nusra Front is said to be a different name of Al-Qaeda in Iraq||||||
|June 17, 2005|Islamic Jihad Union (IJU)|rowspan="2"|Asia|Uzbekistan|rowspan="35"|||||
|March 5, 2008|Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI-B)|Bangladesh||||||||
|March 18, 2008|Al-Shabaab|Africa|Somalia, Yemen, Mozambique|||||||
|May 18, 2009|Revolutionary Struggle|Europe|Greece|||||||
|July 2, 2009|Kata'ib Hezbollah|rowspan="2"|Middle East|Iraq||||||
|January 19, 2010|al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)|Saudi Arabia||||||||
|August 6, 2010|Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI)|rowspan="3"|Asia|Bangladesh||||||
|September 1, 2010|Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP)|Pakistan||||||||
|November 4, 2010|Jaish ul-Adl (formerly Jundallah)|Iran||||||||
|May 23, 2011|Army of Islam (Palestinian)|Middle East|Palestinian Territories|||||||
|rowspan="2"|September 19, 2011|Indian Mujahideen (IM) (India)|rowspan="2"|Asia|India|||||
|Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)|Indonesia|||||||||
|May 30, 2012|Abdullah Azzam Brigades|Middle East|Iraq|||||||
|September 19, 2012|Haqqani Network (HQN)|Asia|Afghanistan, Pakistan|||||||
|March 22, 2013|Ansar Dine (AAD)|rowspan="7"|Africa|Mali||||||
|rowspan="2"|November 14, 2013|Boko Haram|rowspan="2"|Nigeria||||||
|Ansaru||||||||||
|December 19, 2013|al-Mulathamun Brigade|Algeria||||||||
|rowspan="3"|January 13, 2014|Ansar al-Shari'a in Benghazi|rowspan="2"|Libya||||||
|Ansar al-Shari'a in Darnah||||||||||
|Ansar al-Shari'a in Tunisia|Tunisia|||||||||
|April 10, 2014|ISIL Sinai Province (formerly Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis)|Africa, Middle East|Egypt|||||||
|May 15, 2014|Al-Nusra Front|Middle East|Syria|||||||
|August 20, 2014|Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem|Africa, Middle East|Egypt|||||||
|September 30, 2015|Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al Naqshabandi (JRTN)|Middle East|Iraq|||||||
|January 14, 2016|ISIL-Khorasan|Asia|Afghanistan|||||||
|May 19, 2016|ISIL-Libya|Africa|Libya|||||||
|June 30, 2016|Al-Qa'ida in the Indian Subcontinent|rowspan="4"|Asia|Bangladesh, India, Pakistan||||||
|August 16, 2017|Hizbul Mujahideen|Kashmir||||||||
|rowspan="3"|February 28, 2018|ISIS-Bangladesh|Bangladesh|||||||
|ISIS-Philippines|Philippines|||||||||
|ISIS-West Africa|rowspan="2"|Africa|Maghreb and West Africa|||||||
|May 23, 2018|ISIS-Greater Sahara|Maghreb and West Africa||||||||
|July 11, 2018|al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB)|Asia|Bahrain|||||||
|September 6, 2018|Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM)|Africa|Maghreb and West Africa|||||||
|April 15, 2019|Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps|rowspan="2"|Asia|Iran|Part of Iran's military.|||||
|January 3, 2020|Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq|Iraq|rowspan="5"|||||||
|rowspan="2"|March 10, 2021|ISIS-Democratic Republic of the Congo|rowspan="2"|Africa|Democratic Republic of the Congo|||||
|ISIS-Mozambique|Mozambique|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|December 1, 2021|Segunda Marquetalia|rowspan="2"|South America|rowspan="2"|Colombia||||
|Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP)||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|January 20, 2025|Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13)|Central America|Mexico, California, and Texas|rowspan="2"|Placed by Executive Order of POTUS.||||
|Tren de Aragua|South America|Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama, Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and United States||||||||
|January 22, 2025|Ansarallah|Middle East, Asia|Yemen|Placed again by President Donald Trump in his second term. He first placed them on the list in January 11, 2021. The Biden government took them off the list on February 16, 2021.||||||

## FTOs removed from list

The groups below have been removed the list as of December 1, 2021. This is because they quit or are no longer active.
|scope="col" style="white-space: nowrap;" width="130px"|Date added|scope="col" style="white-space: nowrap;" width="130px"|Date removed|scope="col"|Name|scope="col"|Region|scope="col"|Area of operations|scope="col"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="8"|October 8, 1997|rowspan="3"|October 8, 1999|DFLP-Hawatmeh Faction (DFLP)|Middle East, Asia|Palestinian Territories|rowspan="8"|62 FR 52650||||
|Khmer Rouge|Asia|Cambodia||||||||||
|Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front – Dissidents (FPMR-D)|South America|Chile||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|October 8, 2001|Japanese Red Army (JRA)|Asia|Japan||||||||
|Tupac Amaru Revolution Movement (MRTA)|South America|Peru||||||||||
|Revolutionary Nuclei|Europe|Greece||||||||||
|October 15, 2010|Armed Islamic Group (GIA)|Maghreb, Africa|Algeria|||||||||
|September 28, 2012|Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)|Middle East, Asia|Iraq, Iran|||||||||
|October 11, 2005|May 28, 2013|Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (MICG)|Maghreb, Africa|Morocco|rowspan="2"|||||||
|September 10, 2001|July 15, 2014|United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)|South America|Colombia||||||||
|October 8, 1997|September 3, 2015|Revolutionary Organization 17 November|Europe|Greece|62 FR 52650|||||||
|March 27, 2002|December 9, 2015|Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)|Maghreb, Africa|Libya||||||||
|October 8, 1997|June 1, 2017|Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)|Middle East|Palestinian Territories|62 FR 52650|||||||
|October 8, 1997|November 30, 2021|Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)|South America|Colombia|62 FR 52650|||||||
|August 20, 2014|rowspan="5"|May 20, 2022|Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC)|rowspan="3"|Middle East|Palestinian Territories|rowspan="5"|||||
|rowspan="4"|October 8, 1997|Kahane Chai (Kach)|Israel|||||||||
|Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group – IG)|Egypt|||||||||||
|Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)|Europe|Iberian Peninsula||||||||||
|Aum Shinrikyo (AUM)|Asia|Japan||||||||||