This is a list of designated terrorist organizations 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.

This listing does not include unaffiliated individuals accused of terrorism, which are considered under lone wolf terrorism. This list also excludes groups that 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.

Organizations currently officially designated as terrorist by various governments

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

	Organization		AUS	CAN	EGY	EU	IND	IRN	IL	KZ	KSA	PRC	RUS	TUN	TUR	UA	UAE	UK	UN	US
	Abdullah Azzam Brigades
	Abu Nidal Organization
	Abu Sayyaf
	Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
	Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj
	al-Aqsa Foundation
	al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
	Al-Badr
	al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
	Al Ghurabaa
	al-Haramain Foundation
	Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya
	Al-Mourabitoun
	Al-Nusra Front
	al-Qaeda
	al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula																	>
	al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
	Al-Shabaab
	Takfir wal-Hijra
	Al-Umar-Mujahideen
	All Tripura Tiger Force
	Ansar al-Sharia (Libya)
	Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia)
	Ansar al-Islam
	Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna
	Ansar Bait al-Maqdis
	Ansar Dine
	Ansaru
	Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
	Army of Islam
	Osbat al-Ansar
	Aum Shinrikyo
	Babbar Khalsa International
	Balochistan Liberation Army
	Boko Haram
	Caucasus Emirate
	Comite' de Blenfaisance et de Solidarite' avec la Plestine
	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)
	Communist Party of the Philippines/ New People's Army
	Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist
	Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei
	Continuity Irish Republican Army
	Cumann na mBan
	Deendar Anjuman
	Donetsk People's Republic
	Dukhtaran-e-Millat
	East Turkestan Information Center
	East Turkestan Islamic Movement
	East Turkestan Liberation Organization
	Egyptian Islamic Jihad
	Ergenekon
	ETA
	Fianna Éireann
	Force 17
	Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front
	Hamas
	Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
	Haqqani network
	Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
	Harkat-al-Jihad al-Islami in Bangladesh
	Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
	Harakat-Ul-Mujahideen/Alami
	Harakat Sham al-Islam
	Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin
	Hezbollah
	Hezbollah (Military Wing)
	Hezbollah (External Security Organisation)
	Hezbollah Al-Hejaz
	Hilafet Devleti
	Hizb ut-Tahrir
	Hizbul Mujahideen
	Hofstad Network
	Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
	Houthis
	Indian Mujahideen
	International Sikh Youth Federation
	Irish National Liberation Army
	Irish People's Liberation Organisation
	Islamic Jihad - Jamaat Mujahideen
	Islamic Jihad Union
	Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
	Jaish-e-Mohammed
	Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar
	Jamaat Ul-Furquan
	Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
	Jamiat al-Islah al-Idzhtimai
	Jamiat ul-Ansar
	Jamiat-e Islami
	Jemaah Islamiyah
	Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid
	Jund al-Sham
	Jundallah
	Kach and Kahane Chai
	Kangleipak Communist Party
	Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup
	Kata'ib Hezbollah
	Khalistan Commando Force
	Khalistan Zindabad Force
	Khuddam ul-Islam
	Komalah
	Kurdistan Democratic Party/North
	Kurdistan Freedom Falcons
	Kurdistan Workers' Party
	Lashkar-e-Taiba
	Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
	Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
	Loyalist Volunteer Force
	Lugansk People's Republic
	Manipur People's Liberation Front
	Maoist Communist Centre of India
	Marxist-Leninist Communist Party
	Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group
	Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem
	Muslim Brotherhood
	National Democratic Front of Bodoland
	National Liberation Army
	National Liberation Front of Tripura
	Orange Volunteers
	Palestine al-muslima
	Palestine Liberation Front
	Palestinian Islamic Jihad
	Palestinian Relief Development Fund - Interpal
	Party of Free Life of Kurdistan
	People's Congress of Ichkeria and Dagestan
	People's Liberation Army of Manipur
	People's Mujahedin of Iran
	People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak
	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command
	Provisional Irish Republican Army
	Quds Force
	Real Irish Republican Army
	Red Hand Commando
	Red Hand Defenders
	Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
	Revolutionary Organization 17 November
	Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan
	Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Front
	Revolutionary Struggle
	Saor Éire
	The Saved Sect
	Tevhid-Selam (Al-Quds Army)
	Shining Path
	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
	Taliban
	Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
	Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
	Tamil Nadu Liberation Army
	Tamil National Retrieval Troops
	Tanzim
	Ulster Defence Association
	Ulster Volunteer Force
	United Liberation Front of Assam
	United National Liberation Front
	United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
	Vanguards of Conquest
	World Tamil Movement
	World Uygur Youth Congress

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		AUS	CAN	EU	UK	US	IND	RUS	PRC	TUR	RSFSR
	African National Congress					1988-08
	Aum Shinrikyo			? to 2011-07-18
	United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia			? to 2011-07-18
	Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine					1997-08-10 to 1999-08-10
	Fatah					? to ?
	Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council						2000-11-16 to 2011
	Kach and Kahane Chai			? to 2010-07-12
	Japanese Red Army					1997-10-08 to 2001-10-08
	Khmer Rouge					1997-10-08 to 1999-10-08
	Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front					1997-10-08 to 1999-10-08
	People's Mujahedin of Iran		? to 2012-12	? to 2010		1997-10-08 to 2012-09-28
	Palestine Liberation Front			? to 2010-07-12
	Palestine Liberation Organization					1988 to 1991
	Revolutionary Nuclei					1997-08-10 to 2009-05-18
	Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement					1997-08-10 to 2001-10-08
	Red Army Faction			1970-05-14 to 1998-04-20
	Red Brigades			1970-08 to ?
	Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)					? to 2012-09-06

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 fueling radicalism.

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Australia

Since 2002, the Australian Government maintains a Listing of terrorist organizations as per 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.

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Canada

Since December 18, 2001, article 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.

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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.

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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.

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India

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

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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 USA at www.china-embassy.org.

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Russia

Single federal list of organizations recognized as terrorist by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

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Ukraine

In Ukraine, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics are classified 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.

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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.

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UN 1267 regime list

The 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 the UK Statute Law Database.

United States

• U.S. 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 2011-07-17.

• U.S. Department of Homeland Security -- Terrorist Organization Reference Guide January 2004

Yugoslavia and Serbia

The Yugoslav und Serbian authorities regarded the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as a terrorist group.

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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
• Violent non-state actor

References

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