List of designated terrorist groups

This is a list of designated terrorist groups by national governments, former governments, and inter-governmental organizations, where the proscription has a significant effect 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. Some organisations have multiple wings or components, one or more of which may be designated as terrorist while others are not.

This listing does not include unaffiliated individuals accused of terrorism, which are considered under lone wolf terrorism. This list also excludes groups which might be widely considered terrorist, but who are not officially so designated according to the criteria specified above.

This list is not all inclusive. For more inclusive lists, including people, entities (corporations), and specific vehicles, refer to lists under Process of designation.

There are near about 210 recognised terrorist organisations.

Organizations currently officially designated as terrorist by various governments

The list includes references to organisations associated with Al-Qaeda by the United Nations.

= officially designated as terrorist

Organization		ARG	AUS	CAN	PRC	EGY	EU	IND	IRN	ISR	JPN	KAZ	NZL	PAK	PAR	PHL	ROC	ROK	RUS	SAU	TUN	TUR	UKR	UAE	UK	UN	USA	VNM
	Abdullah Azzam Brigades
	Abu Nidal Organization
	Abu Sayyaf
	Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
	Ajnad Misr
	al-Aqsa Foundation
	al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
Template:Flagdeco image	Al-Badr
	al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya
	Al Ghurabaa
	al-Haramain Foundation
Template:Flagdeco image	Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya
Template:Flagdeco image	Al-Mourabitoun
Template:Flagdeco image	Al-Nusra Front
Template:Flagdeco image	al-Qaeda
Template:Flagdeco image	al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Template:Flagdeco image	al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent
Template:Flagdeco image	al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
	Al-Shabaab
	Takfir wal-Hijra
	Al-Umar-Mujahideen
Template:Flagdeco image	All Tripura Tiger Force
Template:Flagdeco image	Ansar al-Sharia (Libya)
	Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia)
Template:Flagdeco image	Ansar al-Islam
Template:Flagdeco image	Ansar Bait al-Maqdis
Template:Flagdeco image	Ansar Dine
	Ansarul Islam
Template:Flagdeco image	Ansaru
	Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
	Army of Islam
Template:Flagdeco image	Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
Template:Flagdeco image	Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
	Osbat al-Ansar
Template:Flagdeco image	Aum Shinrikyo
Template:Flagdeco image	Badr Organization
	Babbar Khalsa International
Template:Flagdeco image	Balochistan Liberation Army
	Blood & Honour
	Boko Haram
Template:Flagdeco image	Caucasus Emirate
	Combat 18
	Committee for Charity and Solidarity with Palestine
	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)
Template:Flagdeco image	Communist Party of the Philippines/ New People's Army
Template:Flagdeco image	Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist
	Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei
	Continuity Irish Republican Army
	Cumann na mBan
	Deendar Anjuman
	Dukhtaran-e-Millat
	East Turkestan Information Center
Template:Flagdeco image	East Turkestan Islamic Party
Template:Flagdeco image	East Turkestan Liberation Organization
	Egyptian Islamic Jihad
	ETA
Template:Flagdeco image	Fianna Éireann
	Force 17
Template:Flagdeco image	Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front
	Grey Wolves
	Gülen movement
Template:Flagdeco image	Hamas
Template:Flagdeco image	Hamas – Al-Qassam Brigades
	Haqqani network
Template:Flagdeco image	Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba
Template:Flagdeco image	Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
	Harkat-al-Jihad al-Islami in Bangladesh
Template:Flagdeco image	Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
Template:Flagdeco image	Harakat-Ul-Mujahideen/Alami
Template:Flagdeco image	Harakat Sham al-Islam
	Hasm Movement
Template:Flagdeco image	Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin
Template:Flagdeco image	Hezbollah																								[3]
	Irish Republican Army
Template:Flagdeco image	Kurdish Hezbollah
Template:Flagdeco image	Hezbollah (Military Wing)
Template:Flagdeco image	Hezbollah (External Security Organisation)
	Hezbollah Al-Hejaz
	Hilafet Devleti
Template:Flagdeco image	Hizb ut-Tahrir
	Hizbul Mujahideen
	Hofstad Network
	Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
	Houthis
	Indian Mujahideen
	International Sikh Youth Federation
Template:Flagdeco image	Irish National Liberation Army
	Irish People's Liberation Organisation
	Islamic Jihad – Jamaat Mujahideen
Template:Flagdeco image	Islamic Jihad Union
Template:Flagdeco image	Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Template:Flagdeco image	International Union of Muslim Scholars
Template:Flagdeco image	Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Caucasus Province
	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province
	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Libya Province
	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Yemen Province
Template:Flagdeco image	Jaish-e-Mohammed
Template:Flagdeco image	Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar
	Jamaat al Dawa al Quran
	Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin
	Jamaat Ul-Furquan
	Jamaat-ul-Ahrar
	Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
	Jamiat al-Islah al-Idzhtimai
	Jamiat ul-Ansar
Template:Flagdeco image	Jamiat-e Islami
	Jemaah Islamiyah
	Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid
Template:Flagdeco image	Jund al-Aqsa
	Jund al-Khilafah
	Jund al-Sham
	Jundallah
Template:Flagdeco image	Kach and Kahane Chai
	Kangleipak Communist Party
	Katibat al-Imam al-Bukhari
	Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup
Template:Flagdeco image	Kata'ib Hezbollah
	Khalistan Commando Force
	Khalistan Zindabad Force
	Khuddam ul-Islam
	Komala
	Kurdistan Communities Union
	Kurdistan Democratic Party/North
Template:Flagdeco image	Kurdistan Freedom Hawks
Template:Flagdeco image	Kurdistan Workers' Party
Template:Flagdeco image	Lashkar-e-Taiba
Template:Flagdeco image	Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Template:Flagdeco image	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
	Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
Template:Flagdeco image	Loyalist Volunteer Force
Template:Flagdeco image	Lugansk People's Republic
	Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia
	Manipur People's Liberation Front
	Maoist Communist Centre of India
Template:Flagdeco image	Marxist–Leninist Communist Party
	Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group
	Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
Template:Flagdeco image	Mujahidin Indonesia Timur
	Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem
	Muslim Brotherhood
	National Action
Template:Flagdeco image	National Democratic Front of Bodoland
Template:Flagdeco image	National Liberation Army
Template:Flagdeco image	National Liberation Front of Tripura
Template:Flagdeco image	Orange Volunteers
	Palestine Liberation Front
Template:Flagdeco image	Palestinian Islamic Jihad
	Palestinian Relief Development Fund – Interpal
Template:Flagdeco image	Party of Free Life of Kurdistan
	People's Congress of Ichkeria and Dagestan
Template:Flagdeco image	People's Liberation Army of Manipur
Template:Flagdeco image	People's Mujahedin of Iran
	People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak
	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Template:Flagdeco image	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command
Template:Flagdeco image	Promised Day Brigade
	Provisional Irish Republican Army
	Quds Forc
	Real Irish Republican Army
	Red Hand Commando
	Red Hand Defenders
Template:Flagdeco image	Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Template:Flagdeco image	Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Template:Flagdeco image	Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan
Template:Flagdeco image	Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front
	Revolutionary Struggle
	Saor Éire
	The Saved Sect
	Tevhid-Selam (Al-Quds Army)
	Saraya al-Ashtar
	Saraya al-Mukhtar
Template:Flagdeco image	Shining Path
	Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries
	Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
	Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage
	Stichting Al Aqsa
	Students Islamic Movement of India
	Supreme Military Majlis ul-Shura of the United Mujahideen Forces of Caucasus
Template:Flagdeco image	Tahrir al-Sham
Template:Flagdeco image	Taliban
Template:Flagdeco image	Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
Template:Flagdeco image	Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
	Tamil Nadu Liberation Army
	Tamil National Retrieval Troops
	Tanzim
	Third Republic of Vietnam
Template:Flagdeco image	Ulster Defence Association
Template:Flagdeco image	Ulster Volunteer Force
Template:Flagdeco image	United Liberation Front of Assam
Template:Flagdeco image	United National Liberation Front
Template:Flagdeco image	United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
	United States Armed Forces
	Vanguards of Conquest
Template:Flagdeco image	Việt Tân
Template:Flagdeco image	World Tamil Movement
Template:Flagdeco image	World Uygur Youth Congress
Template:Flagdeco image	Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade

Organizations officially designated as terrorist in the past

Below is the list of organizations that have officially been designated as terrorist in the past, by the respective parties, but have since been delisted.

Organization		EU	RSA	UK	US	IND	ETH
Template:Flagdeco image	African National Congress		16 December 1961– 11 February 1990		August 1988 – 2008
Template:Flagdeco image	Aum Shinrikyo	? – 18 July 2011
Template:Flagdeco image	United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia	? – 18 July 2011			2001–2014
Template:Flagdeco image	Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine				10 August 1997 – 10 August 1999
Template:Flagdeco image	Fatah
Template:Flagdeco image	Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council				16 November 2000 – 2011
Template:Flagdeco image	Kach and Kahane Chai			? – 12 July 2010
	Japanese Red Army				8 October 1997 – 8 October 2001
	Khmer Rouge				8 October 1997 – 8 October 1999
Template:Flagdeco image	Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front				8 October 1997 – 8 October 1999
Template:Flagdeco image	People's Mujahedin of Iran	May 2002 – 26 January 2009		28 March 2001 – 24 June 2008	8 July 1997 – 28 September 2012
	National Council of Resistance of Iran				15 August 2003 – 28 September 2012
	Palestine Liberation Front			? – 12 July 2010
	Palestine Liberation Organization			1988 – 1991
	Revolutionary Nuclei				10 August 1997 – 18 May 2009
Template:Flagdeco image	Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement				10 August 1997 – 8 October 2001
Template:Flagdeco image	Red Brigades	August 1970 – ?
Template:Flagdeco image	Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia	2001 – 13 November 2017
Template:Flagdeco image	Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)					? – 6 September 2012
Template:Flagdeco image	Oromo Liberation Front						? – 2018
Template:Flagdeco image	Ogaden National Liberation Front						? – 2018
	Ginbot 7						? – 2018

Process of designation

Among the countries that publish a list of designated terrorist organizations, some have a clear established procedure for listing and delisting, and some are opaque. The Berghof Foundation argues that opaque delisting conditions reduce the incentive for the organization to abandon terrorism, while fuelling radicalism.

Australia

Main article: Outlawed terror organisations in Australia

Since 2002, the Australian Government maintains a list of terrorist organizations under the Security Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act 2002. Listing, de-listing and re-listing follows a protocol that mainly involves the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Attorney-General's Department.

Canada

Since 18 December 2001, section 83.05 of the Canadian Criminal Code allows the Governor in Council to maintain a list of entities that are engaged in terrorism, facilitating it, or acting on behalf of such an entity.

Entities are reviewed by the Minister and the Chief Justice of the Federal Court, and finally published in the Canada Gazette. The list is also published on the website of Public Safety Canada.

European Union

Main article: List of organisations designated as terrorist organisations by the European Union

The European Union has two lists of designated terrorist organisations that provide for different sanctions for the two groups. The first list is copied from the United Nations, and the second is an autonomous list.

Autonomous list

All other designated organizations.

• the freezing of all funds, other financial assets and economic resources.
• a ban on directly or indirectly making funds, other financial assets and economic resources available.

It is important to note that sanctions are only applicable to EU-external groups regardless of designation. For example, 47 groups are listed as terrorist organizations in the EU but sanctions are only applied to 27 of these. Member States do have an obligation to assist each other in preventing and combating terrorist acts but this is the only action that follows from the designation of an EU-internal organization.

• European Union list of terrorist groups and individuals, 25 June 2012.

Listing process

New organizations are added to the autonomous list following this process:

1. "Designation": Member states and third party states tips about an organization. This state must have solid evidence and must the tip must be sent by the national authority.
2. Scrutinity: The Presidency, or a delegation, gathers basic information, and might require more information from the tipping state.
3. Consultations: Information is shared with other member states for discussion. Everything is still confidential. 15 days after, delegates of the states meet as the CP 931 Working Party, Europol is sometimes invited too.
4. Recommendation: The CP 931 Working Party prepares the listing decision.
5. Decision by EU Council: The council adopts the list. The decision must be unanimous, which means that every state has a veto right.
6. Official Publishing: In the EU Official Journal
7. Notification and Statement of Reason: The council secretariat notifies each designated organization via mail, together with instructions on how to get the decision to be reconsidered.

Delisting process

The EU has similar process to review the list, and to remove organizations for the list.

India

Under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs maintains a list of banned organizations: List of organisations banned by the Government of India.

Korea

Main article: National Security Act (South Korea)

• The Democratic People's Republic of Korea outlawed the Aum Shinrikyo as a terrorist group.
• The Republic of Korea, however, has not yet listed a number of designated terrorist groups. Such groups banned under the National Security Act include, for example, the Workers' Party of Korea (the ruling party of North Korea) and al-Qaeda.

Myanmar

In Myanmar (formerly Burma), the Anti-Terrorism Central Committee is responsible for designating terrorist organisations in accordance with the country's counter-terrorism law. Designations must be approved by the union government before being official. The only group on Myanmar's terror list is the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, declared on 25 August 2017 in accordance with the counter-terrorism law.

New Zealand

The New Zealand Police are responsible for coordinating any requests to the Prime Minister for designation as a terrorist entity. The designation of terrorist organizations is also guided by the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002. New Zealand also abides by several United Nations resolutions dealing with counter-terrorism including UN Resolutions 1267, 1989, 2253, 1988, and 1373.

Pakistan

Government of Pakistan under section 11-B of Anti Terrorism Act can declare an organization believed to be concerned with terrorism as a Proscribed Organization or put it under surveillance. Ministry of Interior issues the formal notification of proscription of an organization. National Counter Terrorism Authority is primarily concerned with monitoring for any signs of re-emergence through intelligence coordination, once an organization is proscribed.

People's Republic of China

The Ministry of Public Security maintains a list of terrorist organizations on its website mps.gov.cn. This list has been translated to English by the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the US.

Philippines

The first group to be officially listed as a terrorist organization under the Human Security Act of 2007 is the Abu Sayyaf on 10 September 2015 by the Basilan provincial court.

In December 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte reportedly issued a proclamation declaring the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA), as terrorist organizations. The proclamation was made in accordance with the Human Security Act and the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act.

Historically the CPP-NPA has been considered as an "organized conspiracy" by the Philippines Government. The label was placed on the CPP's predecessor, the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 and its armed group the Hukbalahap in 20 June 1957 through the Anti Subversion Act or Republic Act No. 1700. The law covered any succeeding organizations of the PKP-1930 and the Hukbalahap which includes the CPP-NPA. Being a member of groups covered by the law is considered illegal. On October 1992, Fidel Ramos signed a law repealing the Anti-Subversion law.

Russia

Main article: Russian Federation list of terrorist and extremist organizations

A single federal list of organizations recognized as terrorist is used by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee maintains a list of terrorist organizations on its website nac.gov.ru, named "Federal United list of Terrorist Organizations".

Serbia

Serbian authorities and their Yugoslav predecessors regard the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as a terrorist group.

Tajikistan

In 2015, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan was banned in Tajikistan as a terrorist organization.

Ukraine

In Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics are designated as terrorist organizations. Ukrainian authorities claim that the two organizations are made up of a rigid hierarchy, financing channels and supply of weapons with the purpose of deliberately propagating violence, seizing hostages, carrying out subversive activity, assassinations, and the intimidation of citizens.

United Nations

The United Nations does not have a general list of all terrorist organizations. Instead, it has several lists focusing on a particular context.

UN 1267 regime list

The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267 based " UN 1267 regime list" is focused on Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and their associates.

• prohibition of sale or transfer of arms and related materiel.
• the freezing of funds and other financial assets or resources.
• the prevention of entry onto or transit through the territories of member states.
• a prohibition on provision of technical assistance or training in military matters or in the manufacture or maintenance of arms and related materiel.

The EU provides exceptions to the implementation of relevant asset-freezing sanctions per UN resolution 1452 (2002). Upon request, a competent national authority may determine to release funds on the following grounds if, within the time limit provided for, there has been no objection made, or a release has been explicitly approved, by the UN Sanctions Committee.

• necessary to cover basic expenses, intended for the payment of professional fees for legal services or for the payment of fees or services in relation to the maintenance of frozen funds or assets
• necessary for extraordinary expenses

United Kingdom

• United Kingdom Government's Proscribed terrorist groups.
• Text of the Terrorism Act 2000 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. .

United States

• United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations
• Terror Exclusion List (TEL)
• Executive Order 13224 blocking Terrorist Property and a summary of the Terrorism Sanctions Regulations (Title 31 Part 595 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations), Terrorism List Governments Sanctions Regulations (Title 31 Part 596 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations), and Foreign Terrorist Organizations Sanctions Regulations (Title 31 Part 597 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations)
• 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
• United States Department of State. "Individuals and Entities Designated by the State Department Under E.O. 13224". Retrieved 17 July 2011.
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Terrorist Organization Reference Guide January 2004

See also

• U.K. List of Proscribed Groups
• U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations
• 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
• List of Islamic terrorist organizations
• Violent non-state actor