List of terrorist groups

Groups considered by many to be terrorist and the countries where they are/were active:

Table of contents

1 Islamist terrorist groups 2 Palestinian terrorist groups (not Islamist) 3 Zionist terrorist groups 4 Leftist terrorist groups 5 Neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups 6 Nationalist/separatist terrorist groups (not Palestinian) 7 Other terrorist groups 8 External links

Islamist terrorist groups

• Abu Sayyaf - Philippines
• al-Qaida - international
• Armed Islamic Group - Algeria and Europe
• Hamas - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• Hizballah - Lebanon
• Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Egypt
• Maktab al-Khidamar - Afghanistan
• People Against Gangsterism and Drugs - South Africa
• Salafi Group for Call and Combat - Algeria

Palestinian terrorist groups (not Islamist)

• Abu Nidal Organization - international (went by the name of Black September during the 1972 Olympics in Munich)
• Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• Palestine Liberation Organization - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
• PFLP-GC - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel

Zionist terrorist groups

• Irgun - British mandate of Palestine (some dispute the definition of the Irgun as a terrorist group due to its avoidance of civilian casualties)
• Jewish Defense League - United States
• Kach - Israel and United States
• Stern gang - British mandate of Palestine

Leftist terrorist groups

• Action Directe - France
• Chukaku-Ha - Japan
• Japanese Red Army (Sekigun) - Japan
• Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
• Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front - Chile
• Montoneros - Argentina
• National Liberation Army - ELN in Colombia
• November 17 (17N) - Greece
• Red Army Faction (popularly known as Baader-Meinhof) - Germany
• Red Brigades (Brigade Rosse) - Italy
• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - Colombia
• Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) - Peru
• Symbionese Liberation Army - USA
• Weathermen - United States

Neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups

• Boeremag - South Africa
• Combat 18 - United Kingdom
• Ku Klux Klan - USA
• Organisation de l'Armée Secrète - France, Algeria
• World Church of the Creator - USA
• The Order - USA

Nationalist/separatist terrorist groups (not Palestinian)

• ETA (Basque Fatherland and Liberty) - Spain and southern France
• Front de Libération du Quebec - Canada
• Continuity Irish Republican Army - Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA, or commonly IRA) - Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Real Irish Republican Army - Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Irish National Liberation Army ? Northern Ireland
• Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - Turkey
• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - Sri Lanka
• Los Macheteros - Puerto Rico
• Loyalist Volunteer Force - Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Mau Mau - Kenya
• Orange Volunteers - Ireland, United Kingdom
• Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the nation) - South Africa

Other terrorist groups

• The Angry Brigade - United Kingdom (anarchists)
• Aum Supreme Truth (Aum Shinrikyo) - Japan (religious cult)
• Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia - Columbia
• Contras - Nicaragua (anti-Communist)
• Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood - Yugoslavia
• Death squads - El Salvador (anti-communist)
• Earth Liberation Front - USA (extremist environmentalist) - avoids harming people or animals, but is considered by the FBI to be a terrorist group
• EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kypriakou Agonistov) - Cyprus
• GRAPO - Spain
• Interahamwe - Rwanda
• Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia - Armenia
• Revolutionary United Front - Sierra Leonean rebels

See also: List of guerrilla movements

External links

• UK Home Office list of terrorist groups
• US State Department list of foreign terrorist organisations