Founded by Abu Nidal in , the goal of the ANO was to destroy the State of Israel, viewing armed struggle as the only method to liberate the people of Palestine. ANO was responsible for the November hijacking of an Egypt Air flight, which resulted in the death of at least 58 people, including a Canadian woman and her infant son.
ANO was also responsible for the July explosion of two bombs near a cruise ship in Aegina, Greece killing 9, and the assassination of a Jordanian embassy diplomat in Beirut. Ostensibly, the group's goal is the establishment of an Islamic state governed by Sharia Law in the south Philippines. In practice, however, the ASG primarily uses terrorism for profit: kidnap-for-ransom, guerrilla warfare, mass-casualty bombings, and beheadings are particularly favoured tactics.
In , two Canadian nationals were beheaded after being kidnapped by the group. At least 45 civilians were killed during the siege, and 1, hostages were rescued. AAB was established in and has incited violence towards the Bahraini leadership. AAB has claimed responsibility for several bombings targeting security forces, including the February 14, , attack on a minibus carrying police officers, which wounded several; and the March 3, , improvised explosive device attack which killed 3 policemen and injured several others.
Al-Murabitoun's goal is to spread jihad across North Africa. The group was formed to strengthen efforts against French military forces and interests in the region. Al-Murabitoun has carried out terrorist activity, such as the February 8, kidnapping of 5 Malian aid workers near Gao, Mali. The MBD has carried out suicide bombing attacks and assaulted civilian facilities. For instance, the MBD claimed responsibility for the January 16, attack on the Tigantourine gas facility near the town of In Amenas in eastern Algeria.
MBD militants, using assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank mines, took dozens of foreign and Algerian workers hostage that resulted in the deaths of at least 48 hostages. Description Founded in by Usama bin Laden, Al Qaida serves as the strategic hub and driver for the global Islamist terrorist movement. The group's goals include uniting Muslims to fight the United States and its allies, overthrowing regimes it deems "non-Islamic" and expelling Westerners and non-Muslims from Muslim countries.
Al Qaida activities include, but are not limited to, suicide attacks, simultaneous bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings. Al Qaida has forged ties and strategic control over other like-minded Islamist terrorist groups and provides encouragement and inspiration to other affiliated and aligned groups around the world. The Al Qaida network has been directly or indirectly associated with the bombings of two United States embassies, as well as the bombing of the USS Cole.
It was directly involved in the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of September 11, and in a foiled plot to bomb the New York subway system in In April Al Qaida organized a suicide bombing inside a metro train in St. Petersburg, Russia, killing at least 10 civilians, and injuring 40 more. Al Qaida continues to publically encourage its followers to carry out attacks against its perceived enemies.
Its primary objectives are to cleanse the Arabian Peninsula of foreign influence — particularly Western military personnel and civilian contractors — and to establish a single Islamic caliphate in place of the existing regimes in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
AQAP's most prominent attacks have been suicide bombings; however, the group has also engaged in guerilla-style raids on military and security targets. It is also responsible for the failed December 25, , attempt to detonate an explosive abroad a Northwest Airlines flight as the plane prepared to land in Detroit, and the attack on the office of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. Since the announcement of its creation, AQIS has claimed responsibility for the September 6, attempt to hijack Pakistan Naval Ship Zulfiqar; the October 31, attacks on two publishers in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and several assassinations.
In October , there were reports that six AQIS militants had arrived in Karachi from Afghanistan with plans to reactivate their sleeper cell to carry out terrorist attacks. AQIS continues to call for violence against India. In , a splinter of the GIA declared its independence from the original group, believing the GIA's brutal tactics were hurting the Islamist cause.
AQIM is the most effective and largest extremist armed group inside Algeria. The group has maintained a high operational tempo since its emergence under the name of AQIM, employing conventional terrorist tactics including guerilla-style ambushes and the use of improvised explosive devices against military personnel and truck bombs against government targets, in Algeria and West African countries. AQIM continues to kidnap Westerners and hold them for ransom in return for the release of imprisoned Islamic militants.
On March 2, , a coordinated attack by JNIM on the army headquarters and the French Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, killed at least 8 people and wounding more than 80 others.
Description Al Shabaab is an organized but shifting Islamist group dedicated to establishing a Somali caliphate, waging war against the enemies of Islam, and removing all foreign forces and Western influence from Somalia. It is currently the strongest, best organized, financed and armed military group in Somalia, controlling the largest stretch of territory in southern Somalia.
Al Shabaab has carried out suicide bombings and attacks using land mines and remote-controlled roadside bombs, as well as targeted assassinations against Ethiopian and Somali security forces, other government officials, journalists, and civil society leaders.
It has also carried out suicide bombings in Uganda in retaliation for the presence of Ugandan peacekeeping forces in Somalia. In October , Al Shabaab detonated two vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices in Mogadishu, killing people and injuring others. More recently, on December 28, , Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for a bombing at a busy intersection on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 78 people and injuring at least 51 people.
The group is believed to be closely linked with Al Qaida and formally pledged allegiance to Usama bin Laden and his terrorist network. Description The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade AAMB emerged at the outset of the Palestinian al-Aqsa intifada and consists of loose cells of Palestinian militants loyal to, but not under the direct control of, the secular-nationalist Fatah party. The AAMB has conducted armed, suicide and rocket attacks to achieve its objectives.
By the late s, the organization began to advocate change by force. Its primary goal was to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state governed by Sharia Law.
Past AGAI attacks primarily targeted the police, government officials, informants, government sympathizers, foreign tourists, and Coptic Christians. Description One of the most prominent anti-Coalition groups in Iraq, Ansar al-Islam AI is the product of a merger between various Kurdish militant Islamist factions. It maintains links to Al Qaida and elements of the group have also pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. AI's current goals are to expel all foreign forces from Iraq, counter the growing influence of Iraq's Shia and secular Kurdish communities, and to establish an independent Iraqi state governed by Sharia Law.
In , AI was responsible for a coordinated double suicide bombing on the respective headquarters of two Kurdish political parties that killed more than 60 people and wounded over others.
AI is also well-known for kidnapping and executing foreign hostages, often beheading their victims and posting video of the act on the Internet. On February 20, , AI released a video on a Telegram channel displaying its Syria-based weapons development. Its main objectives are to implement Sharia law across Mali and to expel foreign influence from the country. Although largely focused on Mali, Ansar Dine has worked in coordination with JNIM, and has expressed support for a global jihadist ideology.
It has also targeted civilians, including Westerners, for kidnapping. The GIA's primary objective is to overthrow the Algerian government and replace it with an Islamic state. The group employs a variety of methods and tactics in its attacks, including bombings, shootings, hijackings and kidnappings.
In August , a gas canister bomb containing nails and bolts was planted in a trash can and detonated near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
The GIA is known to have targeted intellectuals, journalists, and foreigners, both within and outside Algeria. The GIA has been dormant since approximately Description Founded in the United Kingdom between and , the Aryan Strikeforce ASF is a neo-Nazi group which aims to carry out violent activities to overthrow governments, start a race war, and eradicate ethnic minorities.
The ASF describes itself as a white nationalist organization with the goal to protect the honour of their women, children, and the future of their race and nation, using violence as a necessary tool to achieve its goals.
Members of the group have been convicted of crimes in the United Kingdom and the United States involving the production of chemical weapons, preparing and possessing material useful to commit acts of terrorism, facilitating the transfer of bomb-making instructions, and attempting to secure illegal firearms.
Of particular note, the ASF had planned a suicide bombing attack on counter-protestors during a November white supremacist rally in Pennsylvania. Its main objective is to promote the establishment of an Islamic state in Lebanon and it is opposed to Christian, secular, and Shia institutions in the country.
Past targets have included the Lebanese state, as well as elements within the country AAA considers un-Islamic.
For example, two AAA members attacked a Sidon court in and killed four people. The group has twice been involved in plots to assassinate the US Ambassador to Lebanon. The group calls for acts of violence against racial, religious, and ethnic groups, and informants, police, and bureaucrats, to prompt the collapse of society. AWD has previously held training camps, also known as hate camps, where its members receive weapons and hand-to-hand combat training. AWD members have also carried out violent acts at public rallies, including the August rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In July , the co-leader of AWD, an American citizen, was banned from Canada by the Immigration and Refugee Board after it was determined that he was a member of an organization that has or will engage in terrorist activities. Comprehensive Research Institute, A. Sogo Kenkyusho and Aleph. Description Formed in Japan in , Aum Shinrikyo Aum is a religious organization with a belief system that mixes various religions — primarily Buddhism — with science fiction and the prophecies of Nostradamus.
Aum aimed to control Japan, then the world, and subsequently create a global utopian society. Originally peaceful in nature, the group became increasingly dangerous and violent, seeking to actively bring about Armageddon. In Aum committed its first sarin attack against Japanese civilians by releasing the nerve agent in Matsumoto, killing seven people and wounding more than a hundred others.
In its most infamous attack, Aum released sarin in the Tokyo subway system in , killing a dozen people and wounding thousands more. As of , Aum continues to maintain facilities in Japan and Russia. Through their armed branch, Combat 18 C18 , the group has carried out violent actions, including murders and bombings. BKI activities include armed attacks, assassinations, and bombings.
Description Boko Haram BH is a Salafist jihadist group operating in northern Nigeria whose ultimate objective is to overthrow the Nigerian government and implement Sharia Law. The group desires a political system in Nigeria modeled after how the Taliban ruled in Afghanistan.
Its tactics include small arms attacks, the use of improvised explosive devices, suicide bombings, and kidnappings. BH conducted a suicide bomb attack against the United Nations compound in Abuja, Nigeria in August , killing 23 people. A few days later, in Nigeria, the group kidnapped schoolgirls. During the first nine months of , BH was responsible for nearly deaths in Nigeria, and approximately deaths in In many of its attacks BH used children, particularly young girls, as suicide bombers.
Its goal is to overthrow the secular governments in the North Caucasus republics and establish an Islamic emirate governed under the Salafist interpretation of Sharia Law. The Caucasus Emirate has carried out terrorist activities in Russia and the North Caucasus republics that range from ambushes with small arms, targeted assassinations using snipers, improvised explosive devices, and suicide bombings.
Since November , many of the network's leaders have switched their allegiance to the Islamic State. On February 22, , a Caucasus Emirate spokesman called for militants in Chechnya to target Russian infrastructure and military facilities. Description Founded in , the ELN's principal aim is to "seize power for the people" and establish a revolutionary government. The group believes foreign involvement in Colombia's oil industry violates the country's sovereignty and foreign companies are unfairly exploiting Colombia's natural resources.
ELN activities include kidnapping, hijacking, bombing, extortion, and guerrilla warfare. In its attacks, the ELN primarily targets the Colombian oil industry, political events, and political figures. On January 10, , the ELN conducted three bomb attacks against the Cano Limon oil pipeline; a grenade attack on a naval base in Arauca, which injured 2 soldiers; and a sniper attack, which killed a Colombian soldier near the Venezuelan border.
It has been responsible for attacks on Spanish and French interests domestically and abroad. ETA aims to create an independent Basque state that would contain the six Basque provinces of Spain and France, as well as the Navarra province of Spain. Proin quis eros odio, dapibus dictum mauris. Donec nisi libero, adipiscing id pretium eget, consectetur sit amet leo.
Nam at eros quis mi egestas fringilla non nec purus. Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism 19 January Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism 12 August Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism 29 December Designation under the above-referenced authorities also implicates other sanctions laws that penalize persons and countries engaging in certain trade with state sponsors.
To designate a country as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, the Secretary of State must determine that the government of such country has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.
Once a country is designated, it remains a State Sponsor of Terrorism until the designation is rescinded in accordance with statutory criteria. A wide range of sanctions are imposed as a result of a State Sponsor of Terrorism designation, including:.
For more information, please visit: U. There is also an Islamic State affiliate in the country, Abu Sayyaf — Philippines Province, which was responsible for 37 deaths last year. Another collection of Islamist extremists, the Maute Group, killed 26 people. In Western Europe and North America, f ar-right extremists are a growing threat. In , they carried out 59 attacks which killed 17 people. Most of the incidents were carried out by individuals motivated by extreme white nationalist or anti-Muslim beliefs.
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