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ISSN: 1075-4644
GLOBAL SURVEY Vol. 52 No. 528 April 2022
WORLD:
MILITANT
AND REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS
17th Revised Edition
Liberation,
militant, resistance, and revolutionary organizations listed were generally in
existence after 1945 and are pursuing political, religious, and social
objectives using armed force and violent means. Some have engaged in armed
action before assuming their current roles as political movement or party and
others are employing only non-violent means. Activities of those which
wage armed warfare ranging from guerrilla warfare to selected acts of violence,
including arson, assassination, bombing, burglary, extortion, hijacking,
intimidation, kidnapping, murder, rape, and robbery. Others employ non-violent
means, such as blockades, boycotts, demonstrations, protests, and strikes.
A
number of groups and movements have been declared illegal or were banned by
various governments. Many of the groups are opposed to their national
governments or occupying powers, some are pursuing independence or a degree of
autonomy, and others favor different political systems, religious order, or
social conditions. While most of the listed groups also conduct political
action, several are hiding banditry and criminal activities behind stated political
and religious aims.
Organizations
are listed by country of origin or major activity (incl. sanctuaries), English
and native version of name, abbreviation if any, additional names, affiliated
groups, date of establishment, and date of dissolution or inactivity.
No
claim is made to completeness. Some
groups have used the listed name just a few times while operating for another
organization.
Names
of major and active organizations are shown in bold-face.
INTERNATIONAL
al-Qa’ida (AQ) (“The Base”), 18 Aug. 1988
(not formally organized until 1998)
‘Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB), July
2009
al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula
(AQAP) (Al-Qa’ida
fi Jazirat al-'Arab), Jan. 2009
al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent
(AQIS) (Jamā‘at
Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Shibh al-Qārrah al-
Hindīyah), 3 Sep. 2012
al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI), 2004
al-Qa’ida
in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) (Al-Qa’ida
fi bilad al-Maghrib al-islami), 25 Jan.
2007
al-Qa’ida Kurdish Battalions (AQKB), 2007
al-Qa’ida on the Sinai Peninsula,
2011
Mekhtab al-Khadamat (MAK), [Feb.
1980-18 Aug. 1988, forerunner of al-Qa’ida]
Group
to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam
wal-Muslimin/JNIM),
2 Mar. 2017, al-Qa’ida branch in Mali
Islamic Front for the Struggle against the Jews and
the Crusaders (al-Jabbah al-Islamiyah al ‘Alamiyyah li-Qital al-yahud
wal-Salibiyyin), 1998
Party
of Liberation (Hizb ut-Tahrir), 1953
Tablighi Jama’at (Tabliqi Islamist Movement), 1926
AFRICA
Algeria
al-Qa’ida in the Islamic
Maghreb (AQIM)
(Al-Qa’ida fi bilad al-Maghrib al-islami), 2007, initially Armed Islamic Group (Groupement Islamique Armée/GIA), [1992-2007], joined by Salafist Group for Call [Preaching] and Combat (Groupe Salafiste
pour la Prédication et le Combat/GSPC; al-Jamaa’atu l-Salafiyyatu li l’Da’wati
wa l-Qitaal), [1992-2007], Soldiers of the Caliphate (Jund al-Khilafa), see Tunisia
Armée
Islamique de Salut (AIS)
Front
Islamique de Salut (FIS)
Movement
for the Autonomy of Kabylia (MAK)
The
Sentinels (al- Mourabitouns), see also Mali
al-Mulathameen Brigade (AMB) (Masked
Brigade), (also al-Mua'qi'oon Biddam
Brigade ("Those who Sign with Blood" Brigade), December 2012
Angola
Cabinda
Independence Movement (MIC), 2019
Front
for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave (Frente de Libertação do Enclave de
Cabinda/FLEC), August 1963
Armed Forces of Cabinda (FAC), 2019
Lunda
Tchokwe Protection Movement (LTPM)
Popular
Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de
Angola /MPLA), 10 December 1956
Union
for the Total Independence of Angola (União para a
Independéncia Total de Angola/UNITA)
Burkina
Faso
Fighters
of Islam (Ansar ul Islam)
Group to Support Islam and
Muslims (GSIM) (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin/JNIM), 2 March 2017
Islamic
State in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS/ISGS)
Koglweogo
armed self-defense group (2019)
Burundi
Forces
for the Restoration of Democracy-Abanyagihugu (FRD-A)
Imbonerakure (Those that see
far), youth wing of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces
for Defense and Democracy (Conseil national pour la défense de la
démocratie-Forces de défense et de la démocratie -
CNDD-FDD), 2010
National Liberation Forces (Forces
Nationales de la Libération/FNL), 1961
Parti
pour la Libération du Peuple Hutu-Forces Nationales de la Libération
(PALIPEHUTU-FNL)
Republican
Forces of Burundi (Les Forces Republicaines du Burundi/FOREBU) 23 December 2015
Resistance
for a State of Law in Burundi (Résistance pour un Etat de droit au Burundi)
(RED-Tabara), militant youth movement of Movement for Security and
Democracy (MSD) (Dec. 2007
Restoration of Democracy Front (Front de
Restauration de la Démocratie/FRD), 2011
Cameroon
Boko Haram (Jama’atu ahlus sunnah lid da’awati wal jihad)
Cameroonian People’s
Liberation Army (APLC)
Central
African Republic
Alliance for Revival and Rebuilding (A2R) (ex- Séléka)
Anti-Nalaka (Bullets), 2013
Central African Party for Unity and Development
(PCUD)*, 2014
Central African Patriotic Movement (MPC) (ex- Séléka)
Coalition of Patriots for Change (Coalition
des patriotes pour le changement) (CPC), 2020
Coalition of Patriots for
Change (CPC), 15 Dec. 2020
Anti-balaka
alliance, 2013
Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC) (ex- Séléka)
Popular Front for the
Central African Renaissance (FPRC) (ex- Séléka),
2012, mainly
Runga ethnic Islamist people
Return Reclamation Rehabilitation Group (3R), 2016
Central African Patriotic Movement
(MPC) (ex- Séléka)
Eastern
Security Network (ESN), Dec. 2020, formed by IPOB
Democratic Front for the Central African People
(Front Démocratique du Peuple
Centrafricain/FDPC)
Lords Resistance Army (LRA)
Movement of Central African Liberators for Justice
(Mouvement des libérateurs
centrafricains pour
la justice/MLCJ), 2006, led
by semi-nomadic Kara ethnic group
National Movement for the
Liberation of the Central African Republic (MNLC)
Patriotic Rally for the
Renewal of the Central African Republic (Rassemblement
Patriotique pour le Renouveau de la
Centrafrique/RPRC), 21Nov. 2014, Gula
ethnic group
Revolution and
Justice/Sayo
Revolution and
Justice/RJ-Sayo
People’s
Army for the Restoration of the Republic and Democracy (Armée Populaire pour la
Restoration de la République
et la Démocratie/APRD), May 2005
People’s Resistance Movement for Reforming of the
Central African Republic (MRPRC)
Popular Front for Recovery (Front populaire pour le redressement/FPR), 2008
Popular Front for the Central African Renaissance
(FPRC) (ex- Séléka), 2012, Runga-led
Rally of the Central African
Nation Party (Parti du Rassemblement de la Nation Centrafricaine/
PNRC) (28 May 2019)
Rally
of the Forces for Change (Rassemblement des Forces pour Change/RFC)
Republican Forces Union (UFR)
Return
Reclamation Rehabilitation 3R Group (2016)
Justice Riot (RJ)
Séléka (i.e., Alliance, Coalition) [2004-2013]
Convention of Patriots for Justice
and Peace (Convention des Patriots pour la Justice et la Paix/CPJP), December 2012
Patriotic Convention for Saving the Country (CPSK)
Union for Peace in the Central African Republic
(UPC)
Union of Democratic
Forces for Unity (Union des Forces Démocratiques pour l’Unité/UFDU)
(factions)
Wa Kodro Salute Patriotic
Convention
Union
for Peace in Central African Republic (UPC), 2019
Union
of Democratic Forces for Action (UFDA)
Union
of Democratic Forces for the Rally (Union des Forces Démocratiques pour le
Rassemblement/UFDR), September 2006
Chad
Boko
Haram (BH) (Jama’atu ahlus sunnah lid da’awati wal
jihad)
Chadian
National Concord (Concorde
Nationale du Tchad/CNT)
Chadian National Front (Front National du
Tchad/FNT)
Chad National Liberation Front (Front de Libération
National Tchadien/FROLINAT), 1966 #
Fighters of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (Front pour l’alternance et la concorde au Tchad)
(FACT), formed in March 2016 in Libya after splitting from UFDD
Islamic State in the Greater
Sahara (IS-GS/ISGS), 2015
Military Command Council for
the Salvation of the Republic (Conseil de Commandement Militaire pour le Salut
de la République/CCMSR)
Movement for Democracy and Justice in Tibesti
(Mouvement pour la Démocratie et la Justice en
Tibesti/MDJT), 1968
National Alliance (NA), 2008
National Alliance of Resistance (ANR)
Popular Front for the Central African Renaissance
(FPRC) (ex- Séléka), 2012, Runga-led
Popular Front for Recovery
(Front populaire pour le redressement) (FPR), 2008-2014
Progressive Force for Independence and Rebirth
(Forces Progressistes pour l’Independence et la
Renaissance/FPIR), January
2009 (Forum for Exiled Chadians in Central Africa) (FECAT)
Rally
of the Forces for Change (Rassemblement des Forces pour Change/RFC)
Union
of Forces for Democracy and Development (Union de Forces pour la Démocratie et le
Développement/UFDD)
Union of Resistance Forces (Union des Forces de la
Résistance/UFR), 2009
United
Front for Change (Front uni pour Change) (FUC), disbanded
United Front for Democracy
and Peace (FUDP)
Comoros
Movement
for the National Liberation of Comoro (Molinaco) [1962-1975]
Congo (B)
Congolese Movement for
Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI)
Congo (DR)
Alliance of Patriots for a
Free and Sovereign Congo (APCLS)
Allied
Democratic Forces (ADF), see Uganda
Alliance
of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (Alliance des Forces
Démocratiques pour la
Libération du Congo-Zaire/AFDL), November 1996
Bantu militias
Batwa militias
Congolese Liberation Front (CLF) (Front de la
Libération Congolaise/FLC), 2001
Congolese Rally for Democracy (Rassemblement
Congolais pour la Démocratie/RCD), 1998 #
Congolese Rally for Democracy-Goma (Rassemblement
Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma/
RCD-Goma)
Congolese Rally for Democracy-Kisangani
(Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-
Kisangani/RCD-K)
Congolese Revolutionary
Movement (Mouvement Révolutionnaire Congolais/MRC), December
2005
Cooperative
for Development of Congo (CODECO), 2019
Democratic
Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, 2000, Hutu militia (Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du
Rwanda/FDLR), see Rwanda
Abacunguzi Combat Force (Force
Combattante Abacunguzi/FOCA)
Rally
for Unity and Democracy (Ralliement pour l’Unité et la Démocratie/RUD)
Soki
Group
Enyele/Independent
Movement of Liberation and Allies (MILIA), 2009
Force for the Defense of Human Rights/Nyatuyra
Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri (Forces de Résistance
Patriotique d’Ituri/FRPI), November
2002
Front
for the Liberation of Congo (FPLC)
Islamic
State Central Africa Province (IS-CAP)
Kamuina
Nsapu militia [aka Kamuina] (8 Aug. 2016)
Kyandenga militia
(Maï-Maï), 2020
Movement
for the Liberation of the Congo (Mouvement de Libération/MLC), November 1998 #
Maï-Maï Militia (Maï-Maï Ingilama), 1996
Maï-Maï Nyatura
Simba
militia
March
23 Movement (M23), 4 April 2012, surrendered 2013
National
Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), 1995
National
Congress for the Defense of the People (Congrès
National pour la Défense du Peuple/
CNDP), December 2006
Nationalist Integrationist Front (Front de Nationalistes et Intégrationnistes/FNI), 2005
Nduma Defense of the Congo-Renovated (NDC-R)/Rénové
de Guidon
Nyatura Hutu militias
Outraged
Citizens (Raia Mutomboki/RM), 2005
Patriotic and Integrationist
Front of Congo (FPIC), 2020
People’s
Army of the Oppressed in Zaire (APOZA) [1968-1979]
Popular Front for Justice in Congo (FPJC), splinter
group of FRPI
Popular Revolutionary Party (Parti de la Révolution
Populaire/PRP), 1967
Twa militias
Union of Congolese Patriots (Union des Patriotes Congolais/UPC),
1999?
Union
of Forces for the Liberation of Katanga (UFLKA), 16 December 2011
Djibouti
Front for the Liberation of the Somali Coast (FLCS)
[1968-1979]
Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy
(Front pour la Restauration de l’Unité et la
Démocratie/FRUD), 1991 #
National Independence Union (UNI) [1968-1979]
Popular Liberation Movement [1968-1979]
Popular Struggle Front (PSF), 1987
Front for the Liberation of the Somali Coast (FLCS)
[1968-1979]
Egypt
Ajnad
Misr (Soldiers of Egypt), Jan. 2014 (split from Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis)
Allied
Popular Resistance Movement (APRM), see PRM
Arms
of Egypt Movement (Harakat Sawa’d Misr) (HASM), 2015
at-Takfir wal Hijra (Condemnation and Exodus), 1971, also Society of Muslims
Egyptian
Islamic Jihad, see Islamic Jihad
Islamic
Group (IG) (al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya), 1971, also al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya (IG)
Islamic
Jihad (al-Jihad [al-Islami] (AJ), 1980
Jihad Group (IG)
New Jihad Group
Vanguards of Conquest
Talaa’ al-Fateh
Islamic
Liberation Organization [1968-1979]
Islamic
Society (Jama’at Islamiya), 1970s
Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/ISIS)-Sinai Province (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya
fil-Iraq wa al-Sham) (IS), also Islamic State in Sinai Province (IS-SP), 2016
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (HAMAS)
Jama’at al-Muslimin (Society of Muslims), 1971, also at-Takfir wal Hijra
Jund al-Shari’a (Soldiers
of Islamic Law), 2012
Muhammad
Jamal Network (MJN), 2011
Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of
Jerusalem/Mujahideen Shura Council of Jerusalem
(Majlis
Shura al-Mujahideen), 2012
Partisans of Jerusalem/ Partisans of the Holy
House/Ansar Jerusalem, also Champions of
Jerusalem, Supporters of the Holy Places (Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis), 2011
Partisans of Islamic Law (Ansar
al-Shari’a) 2014
Popular Resistance Movement (PRM), 2014 (also Allied
Popular Resistance Movement (PRM))
Determination Movement
Execution Movement
Movement for Revolution in Beni Suef
Popular Resistance Movement Alexandria
Popular Resistance Movement Giza
Revolutionary Punishment Movement
Revolution
Brigade (Liwa El-Thawra), August 2016
Islamic State Sinai Province (IS SP) (Affiliated with ISIL), 2016
Society
of Muslims, see Condemnation and Migration
The
Struggle, see Islamic Jihad
Equatorial
Guinea
Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island
(Movimiento para la
Auto-determinación de la
Isla de Bioko/MAIB),
2007?
Eritrea
Eritrean
Liberation Front (ELF), 1961
ELF-General
Command [1968-1979]
ELF-Revolutionary
Council [1968-1979]
Eritrean
People’s Liberation Front (EPLF)
Harakat
al-Shabaab al-Mujahedeen (HSM) (Mujahideen Youth Movement), 2007
Ethiopia
Amhara Democratic Forces
Movement
Arbengoch Ginbot 7 Unity and
Democratic Movement (AGUDM), 2005
Buadin militia
Gambela People’s Liberation
Movement
Gumuz Liberation Front
Gumuz Militia
Ogaden
National Liberation Front (ONLF), 1984
Oromo
Liberation Army (OLA)
Oromo
Liberation Front (OLF), 1974
Popular
Liberation Forces (PLF) [1968-1979]
Sidama
Liberation Front (SLF)
Tigray
Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), 18 February 1975
United
Oromo Liberation Forces (UOLF), October 2000
Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), 1974
Oromo People’s Liberation Front
(OPLF)
Islamic Front for the Liberation of
Oromiya (IFLO)
Oromiya Liberation Council (OLC)
United Oromo People’s Liberation
Front (UOPFL)
Oromo People’s Liberation
Organization (OPLO)
Western
Somali Liberation Front (WSLF), until 1984, see Ogaden
National Liberation Front (ONLF)
Kenya
Harakat
al-Shabaab al-Mujahedeen (HSM) (Mujahideen Youth Movement), 2007
Al-Hijra, 2008
Army of the Faithful (Jaysh
al-Ayman) June 2013
Mombasa
Republican Council (MRC), 1999
Sabaot
Land Defence Force (SDLF), 2005
Libya
Ajdabiya
Revolutionaries Shura Council (ARSC)
Altabu
Front for the Salvation of Libya
al-Kani militia/Kaniyat militia
in Tarhouna, 2014, associated with ALAF
al-Qaqa Brigade, 2011, anti-Qadhafi
al-Sawaiq Brigade (al-Sawaiq Brigade for Protection), 2011, pro-government
al-Zintan Revolutionaries’ Military Council, May 2011, anti-Qadhafi
Ansar
al-Shari’a-Derna (AAS-D), allegiance to al-Qa’ida
Arab Libyan Armed
Forces (ALAF)
Libyan National Army (LNA), militia, 2011, 2014
Benghazi Defense Brigades
(BDB)
Benghazi Revolutionaries
Shura Council (BRSC)
Ansar al-Shari’a (AAS-B), allegiance to al-Qa’ida
Libya Shield 1
February 17th Martyrs Brigade
Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade
Derna Mujhahideen Shura
Council (DMSC)
Derna Protection Forces (DPF)
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS)-Libya (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya
fil-Iraq wa al-Sham) (IS) (since 13 Nov. 2014)
● al-Qa’ida in the Islamic
Maghreb (al-Qa’ida
fi bilad al-Maghrib al-islami/AQIM) (2007)
● Islamic State in the
Greater Sahara (IS-GS/ISGS)
● Islamic State in Libya
Libyan
Dawn, 2014
al-Qa’ida
Berber ethnic militias
Libya Muslim Brotherhood
Liwa Nablous brigades
in Misurata
Misrata militias
Libyan Islamic Movement for Change (LIMC, since
Mar. 2011) (formerly Libyan Islamic Fighting
Group (LIFG) (Al-Jam’a al-Islamiyyah
al-Muqatilah), 1995
Libyan Muslim Brotherhood
Libyan
National Army (LNA), militia, 2011, 2014, see ALAF
Libya
Revolutionaries Operations Room (LROR), 2013
Libya
Shield Force
Military Command Council
for the Salvation of the Republic (Conseil de Commandement Militaire pour le
Salut de la République) (CCMSR)
Misratan
Union of Revolutionaries, militias
Mujahideen
Shura Council, militias
National
Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL), October 1981
Partisans
of Islamic Law (Ansar al-Shar’ia) (AAS), 2012-27 May 2017, see Tunisia
Petroleum
Facility Guard (PFG)
Union
of Forces for Democracy and Development (Union de Forces pour la Démocratie et le
Développement/UFDD)
Mali
Alliance
for the Salvation of the Sahel (ASS), 2018
al-Mulathamun Battalion (AMB) (al-Muwaqqi’un bil-Dima), 2012, see GSIM/JNIM
al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (Al-Qa’ida fi bilad al-Maghrib al-islami/AQIM),
December 2015
Katiba al-Ansar
Katiba al-Furqan, September 2013
Katiba Tarik Ibn Zaïd, 2013
Katiba Yusuf ibn Tachfin, November
2012
Arab
Movement of Azawad (MAA)
Arab
Movement of Azawad-Bamako (MAA-B), 2014
Coalition
for the People of Azawad (Coalition pour le peuple de l’Azawad/CPA), March 2014
Coalition
of Azawad Movements
Congress
for Justice in Azawad (Congrès pour la justice dans l’Azawad/CJA)
Coordination for the People of Azawad (CPA)*
Coordination of Azawad Movements (Coordination des
mouvements de l’Azawad/CMA), 9 June 2014, joined by Arab Movement of
Azawad-Dissident (Mouvement arabe de l’Azawad-dissident/MAA-D), 2012-2014
Coordination of Movements and Patriotic Fronts
Resistance (CM-SAF)
Defenders
of Faith (Ansar al-Dine/AAD), 2012
Defenders of Faith South (Ansar
al-Dine Sud/AAD-S), June 2015
Macina Liberation Front (Katiba du
Macina/MLF), January 2015
Democratic
Alliance of 23 May for Change (ADC), 23 May 2006
Dewral Pulaaku, nomad
militia (2014)
Ganda Izo militia (2008)
Group to Support Islam and
Muslims (GSIM) (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin/JNIM), 2 March 2017
Defenders of Faith (Ansar al-Dine/AAD), 2012
Macina Liberation Front (Katibat Macina/MLF), January 2015
The Sentinels (al-Murabitoun), 2012
al-Qa’ida
in the Islamic Maghreb (Al-Qa’ida fi bilad al-Maghrib al-islami/AQIM), December
2015
High
Council for the Unity of Azawad (Haut conseil pour l’unité de l’Azawad/HCUA)*,
May 2013,
formed from High
Council of Azawad (Haut Conseil de l’Azawad/HCA) and Islamic Movement of Azawad
(Mouvement islamique de l’Azawad/MIA)
Imghad
and Allied Tuareg Self-Defense Movement (Groupe d’autodéfense des touareg
Imghad et
alliés/GATIA), 14
August 2014
Islamic
State in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS/ISGS), May 2015
Liberation
Forces of Northern Mali (Forces de libération du Nord du Mali/FLN), 2012
Macina
Liberation Front (Front de Libération du Macina) (Katibat Macina/MLF), January
2015, al-
Qa’ida branch in Mali,
Mécanisme
opérationel de coordination (MOC), -September 2019
Movement
for Justice and Freedom (Mouvement pour la justice et
la liberté/MJL), September 2016
Movement
for National Defense (Mouvement pour la defense de la patrie/MDP), 2012
Movement
for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (Mouvement Unicité et
Jihad en Afrique de 'Ouest/
Jama’at at-tawhid wal-jihad fi gharb
‘afriqqiya/MUJAO), split from AQIM, 2011
Movement
for the Salvation of Azawad (Mouvement pour le salut de l’Azawad/MSA),
September
2016
National
Alliance for the Protection of Peul Identity and Restoration of Justice
(Alliance nationale
pour la sauvegarde
de l’idendité Peule et la restauration de la justice/ANSIPRJ), June 2016
National
Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (Mouvement National pour la Libération de
l’Azawad/MNLA),
October 2010 (formerly MNA)
National
Movement of Azawad (Mouvement National de l’Azawad/MNA), 2011, became MNLA
Niger Mali Tuareg Alliance for Change (Alliance Touareg Niger-Mali pour le
Changement/
ATNMC)
Northern Mali Tuareg Alliance for Change (Alliance
Touareg Nord Mali pour le Changement/
ATNMC),
2007
Partisans of Islamic Law (Ansar al-Shar’ia), 2012
Platforme (CMFPR I) Coordination des mouvements et
fronts patriotiques de résistance, 21 July
2012
Platform
Coalition, June 2014
Popular Movement for the Salvation of Azawad
(Mouvement populaire pour le salut de
l’Azawad/MPSA), 2014
The
Sentinels (al-Murabitoun), 2012, joined al-Qa’ida in 2015
Masked Brigade (al-Mulathameen Brigade) (also al-Mua'qi'oon Biddam Brigade
("Those
who Sign with Blood"
Brigade), 2012, Islamist anti-government
Al-Mulathamun Battalion (AMB)
al-Muwaqi‘un Bil-Dima
Morocco
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (Groupe Islamique
Combattant Marocain) (GICM), late 1990s
Mozambique
Harakat
al-Shabaab al-Mujahedeen (HSM) (Mujahideen Youth Movement), Oct. 2017
Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/ISIS)-Mozambique (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa al-Sham) (IS)Islamic State Central African Province (IS-CAP), 2019
Mozambique Liberation Front (Frente de
Libertação de Moçambique/FRELIMO), 1962 #
Mozambique
Revolutionary Council (COREMO)
Mozambique
National Resistance (Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana/RENAMO), 1976
RENAMO
Military Junta (RMJ) (dissident faction), April 2020
Namibia
(Front
des Forces de Redressement/FFR),People’s Liberation
Army of Namibia (PLAN), see South West Africa People’s Organization of
Namibia
South
West Africa People’s Organization of Namibia (SWAPO), 1958 #
Niger
Coordination
of Armed Resistance (Coordination de la Résistance Armée/CRA), January 1994
Front for the Liberation of Tamoust
(Front pour la Libération de Tamoust/FLT), July 1993
Democratic Renewal Front (Front Démocratique pour
la Renouvellement/FDR), May 1994
Front
of Fighters for Rectification (Front des Forces de Redressement/FFR), split
from MNJ in May
2008
Nigerien
Movement for Justice (Nigériens pour la justice/MNJ),
2007
Niger Patriotic Front (Front Patriotique
Nigérien/FPN), March 2009
Organization of the Armed Resistance (Organisation
de la Résistance Armée/ORA), March 1995
Front for the
Liberation of Aïr and Azouad (Front de Libération de l’Aïr et
l’Azouad/FLAA),
1990
Revolutionary
Armed Forces of the Sahara (Forces Armées Révolutionnaires de la Sahara/FARS),
1997
Union
of Forces of the Armed Resistance/Tuareg Union of the Armed Resistance Forces
(Union
des Forces de la
Résistance Armée/UFRA), November 1996
Popular Front for the Liberation of Northern Niger
(Armée Révolutionnaire pour la Libération
du Niger Nord/ARLN), 1994
Nigeria
Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) (2012), UK based
Islamic
Movement of Nigeria (IMN) (Shi’ite)
Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/ISIS)-West Africa (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa al-Sham) (IS),
also Islamic State West Africa
(ISIS-WA) (2015)
Islamic State West Africa
Province (ISWAP)
Movement
for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), 1999
Movement
for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), mid-2000s
Niger
Delta Avengers (NDA), January 2016
Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF), 2004
Oodua
People’s Congress (OPC)
Reformed Niger Delta
Avengers (RNDA), Aug. 2016
Vanguards
for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa (Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi
Biladis-
Sudan), 2012 (also referred to as Ansaru),
split from Boko Haram (BH)
Rwanda
Army
for the Liberation of Rwanda (Armée
pour la Libération du Rwanda/ALIR), 1994
Interahamwe, 1994
Former Armed Forces (FAR)
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du
Rwanda/FDLR), 2000, Hutu
militia
Abacunguzi Combat Force
(Force Combattante Abacunguzi/FOCA)
Rally
for Unity and Democracy (Ralliement pour l’Unité et la Démocratie/RUD)
Soki
Group
People’s Rwandan Rally (Rassemblement Populaire
Rwandais/RPR)
Rally for Unity and Democracy (Ralliement pour
l’Unité et la Démocratie/RUD)
Sahrawi Arab
Democratic Republic (SADR)/Western Sahara
Mustafa
el Wali Bayyid Sayed International Brigade [1968]
General
Coordination of the Sahrawi Opposition to the POLISARIO Front, 2011, in Spain
Popular Front for the
Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Frente Popular para la
Liberación de Saguia el Hamra
y Rio de Oro/POLISARIO), 10 May 1973 #
Saharan Popular Liberation
Army
Unity
Movement for Jihad in West Africa (Jama’at at-tawhid wal-jihad fi gharb
‘afriqqiya), 2011
Senegal
Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces (Mouvement
des Forces Démocratiques de la
Casamance/MFDC), 1947
Movement for Federalism and Constitutional
Democracy (MFDC), December 2011 #
Sierra Leone
Revolutionary
United Front (RUF) [1991-2002]
Somalia
Ahlu
Sunnah wa’l-Jama’a (ASWJ)
Al-Ittihad
al-Islami (AIAA), early 1990s
Islamic Union
Alliance
for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT), 1991
Digial
Salvation Army, 1999
Followers
of Ahlu Sunnah wa’l-Jama’a (ASWJ), 2019
Front
for the Liberation of the Somali Coast (FLCS)
Front
for the Liberation of Western Somalia (FLWS)
Harakat al-Shabaab
al-Mujahedeen (HSM) (Mujahideen Youth Movement), 2004 (endorsed by al-Qa’ida in
early 2012)
Al-Hijra, 2008
Islamic
Courts Council (ICC), June 2006, formerly Islamic Courts Union
Islamic
Courts Union (ICU) (Ittihad al-mahakim
al-islamiyya) [1996, 1999-June 2006]
Mujahideen Youth Movement (Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahedeen/HSM) Al-Shaba’ab/AS),
2007
Islamic
Party (Hizbul islam), January 2009-December 2010, see
Mujahideen Youth Movement (Al-Shabaab)
Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS-A)
Anole School (Muaskar Anole), militia
Islamic Front (Jabhatul Islamiya)
Ras Kamboni Brigade
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(IS/ISIL/Da’esh)-Somalia (Abnaa ul-Calipha), 2012
Rahanweyne
Resistance Army (RRA), August 1995
Somali Liberation Front [1968]
Somali National Front (SNF), 1991
Somali
National Movement (SNM), 1981
Somali
Patriotic Movement (SPM), 1989
Somali
Salvation Democratic Front
United
Somali Congress (USC), 1999
Western
Somali Liberation Front (WSLF)
Somalia-Puntland
Followers
of Ahlu Sunnah wa’l-Jama’a (ASWJ), 2019
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya
fil-Iraq wa al-Sham) (IS) (since 13 Nov. 2014)
Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (IS/ISIS-Somalia (Da’esh) (Abnaa ul-Calipha), 2012,
active since October 2015
South Africa
African
National Congress (ANC), 8 January 1912 #
Spear of the Nation (Umknonto We
Sizwe), 16 December 1961
Boer
Force (Boermag)
Muslims
Against Global Oppression (MAGO), see People Against
Gangsterism and Drugs
Muslims
Against Illegitimate Leaders (MAIL), see People
Against Gangsterism and Drugs
People
Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), 1996
PAGAD Gun Force (G-Force)
South
African National Congress (SANC) [8 January 1912-1925], see African National
Congress
South Sudan
Lords
Resistance Army (LRA), 1987
National
Salvation Front (NAS) (Mar. 2017)
People’s
Democratic Movement (PDM)
Real Sudan People’s
Liberation Movement (R-SPLM), (30 Aug. 2019)
South
Sudan Army (SSA)
South
Sudan Defense Force (SSDF)
South
Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA), April 2011
South Sudan Liberation Movement
(SSLM), 2010
South
Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), December 2017
South Sudan Opposition
Movements Alliance (SSOMA), 30 Aug. 2019
South
Sudan United Front/Army (SSUF/A) 9 April 2018
Sudan
People’s Democratic Front/Defence Force (SPDF), 1991
Sudan
People’s Liberation Army (SPLA)
Sudan People’s Liberation
Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO), 2013
Sudan
People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), 1983
Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)
Sudan Liberation Army-Unified
Command (SLA-Unity) faction
Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO)
Sudan
Alliance
of Revolutionary Forces in West Sudan (ARFWS), 20 January 2006
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), 2000
Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)
Condemnation
and Migration (at-Takfir wal Hijra), 1994-2006
Democratic
Justice and Equality Movement (DJEM)
Democratic
Revolutionary Forces Front (DRFF)*
Justice
and Equality Movement (JEM), 2000
Liberation
and Justice Movement (LJM)*
Lords
Resistance Army (LRA), 1987
Revolutionary
Democratic Front Forces (RDFF)
Sudan
Liberation Army-Abu Gasim
Sudan
Liberation Army-Free Will
Sudan
Liberation Army Historical Leadership**
Sudan
Liberation Movement-Abdul Wahid (SLM-A)
Sudan
Liberation Movement-Abdulshafi (SLM-A)
Sudan
Liberation Movement-Arko Minnawi (SLM-AM)*
Sudan
Liberation Movement-North (SLM-N)
Sudan
Liberation Movement-Unity (SLM-Unity)
Sudan
Revolutionary Front (SRF), November 2011
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), 2000*
Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)*/Sudan Liberation
Army-Minni Minawi (SLA/MM)
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-North
(SPLM/A-N)
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) (Harakat Al-Sha'abi
Li-Tahrir Al-
Sudan-Al-Shamal), in 2017/2018 split into two factions
Sudanese
Alliance Forces (SAF), see Sudanese National Democratic Alliance
Sudanese
Islamic Youth Movement (9 Mar. 2020)
Sudanese
National Democratic Alliance (SNDA), February 1992
Sudanese
People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), see Sudan People’s
Liberation Movement
United
Front for Liberation and Democracy (UFLD), 2007
United
Resistance Front (URF)*
United
Revolutionary Forces Front (URFF)* (also known as Revolutionary Forces
Front/RFF)
*Signatory
of the Charter of Sudanese Alliance Resistance Forces in Darfur of 12 December
2010.
**Breakaway
group of the Sudan Liberation Army-Abdul Wahid (SLA-A).
Tunisia
Ansar
al-Shari’a (AAS-T), allegiance to al-Qa’ida
Partisans
of Islamic Law (Ansar al-Shar’ia), 2012, Salafist militia (dissolved on 27 May 2017)
Soldiers
of the Caliphate (Jund al-Khilafa) (JAK-T), 2014, Islamist, formerly part of
AQIM, ISIL branch
Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG) (Jama’a Combattante
Tunisienne/JCT), 2000
Uganda
Allied
Democratic Forces (ADF), 1995 (merged with NALU)
Allied
Democratic Forces-National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU), 1995
Kirumira Mutima (The
Strong-Hearted) militia
Lords
Resistance Army (LRA), 1987
National
Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), 1988 (merged with ADF)
Zimbabwe
Patriotic
Front (PF) [1980-1988]
Zimbabwe African National
Union (ZANU), 1970s
Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU), 1961
Zimbabwe
African National Union (ZANU) [August 1963-1988] #
Zimbabwe
African Peoples Union (ZAPU) [1961-1989]
AMERICAS
Tri-Border Area (TBA)--Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay
Islamic Resistance Movement (al-Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya/HAMAS)
(1988)
Party of Allah (Hizbullah)
(1983)
Argentina
Argentine
Anti-Communist Alliance (AAA) [1968-1979]
Argentine
Liberation Front [1968-1979]
Argentine
National Organization Movement (MANO) [1979]
Argentine
National Social Front [1968-1979]
Argentine
Youth for Sovereignty [1968-1979]
Argentinian
Committee of Anti-Imperialist Combat (Comite Argentino de Lucha Anti-
Imperialista/CALAI) [1968-1979]
Che
Guevara Brigade (La Brigada Che Guevara) [1970-1990s] inactive
Descamisados
Peronistas Montoneros [1968-1979]
International
Che Guevara Organization [1970-1990s] inactive
Liberation
Front of South Vietnam (Frente der Liberacion Nacional del
Vietnam del Sur) inactive
Maximo
Mena Command [1968-1979]
People’s
Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario Popular/ERP) [1968-1979]
Peronist
Armed Forces [1968-1979]
Peronist
Movement (Movimiento Peronista) 1943, now Justicialist Party (Partido Justicialista/PJ),
1947 #
Revolutionary
Armed Forces (FAR) [1968-1979]
Bolivia
National
Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional/ELN) [1968], see CNPZ
Nationalist
Commando [1968]
Nestor
Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ), October 1990
Brazil
Action
for National Liberation (ALN) [1968]
Armed
Revolutionary Vanguard-Palmares (CAR-Palmares) [1968]
Aurora
Maria Nacimiento Furtado Command [1968]
Brazilian
Revolutionary Action Front (FARB) [2002]
People’s
Liberation Movement (MLP)
People’s
Revolutionary Vanguard (Vanguarda Popular Revolucionaria/VPR) [1968-1979]
Revolutionary
Movement of the 8th (MR-8) [1968]
Canada
al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB), 2013, supported by Iran1
al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) (Al-Qa’ida fi Jazirat al-'Arab), Jan. 2009
al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent
(AQIS) (Jamā‘at
Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Shibh al-Qārrah al-
Hindīyah), 3 Sep. 20121
Atomwaffen
Division, 3 Feb. 20211
Blood
& Honour, 20191
Canadian
Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation [1968-1979]
Combat 18, 2019
Group to Support Islam and
Muslims (GSIM) (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin/JNIM),
2 Mar. 2017, al-Qa’ida branch in Mali, 3
Feb. 20211
Hizbul
Mujahideen, 3 Feb. 2021 ?? 1
International Resistance (Résistance
Internationaliste, Initiative de Résistance Internationaliste),
2004
Islamic State Bangladesh, 3 Feb. 20211
Islamic State East Asia, 3 Feb. 20211
Islamic State in Libya, 3 Feb. 20211
Islamic
State in the Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS/ISGS), May 2015, 3 Feb. 20211
Islamic State of Iraq and
the Sham-Khorasan (ISIS-K/ISIL-K/ISK) [aka Islamic State in Khorasan Province
(ISKP)/ISIS Wilayat Khorasan] 10 January 2015
Islamic State West Africa
Province (ISWAP), 3 Feb. 20211
Macina
Liberation Front (Front de Libération du Macina) (Katibat Macina/MLF), January
2015, al-
Qa’ida branch in Mali, 3 Feb. 20211
Proud Boys, 3 Feb. 2021
Quebec Liberation Front (Front de Libération du Québec/FLQ), 1960s
Russian Imperial Movement, 3 Feb. 20211
The Base, 3
Feb. 20211
1Listed
by the Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness on 3 Feb. 2021.
Chile
Lautaro
Youth Movement (MJL), 1980s
Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces (FRPL)
United Popular Action Movement/Lautaro faction
(MAPU/L)
Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (Frente Patriótico
Manuel Rodríguez/FPMR), [1983-1987]
Manuel
Rodriguez Patriotic Movement (Movimiento Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez/MPMR), May
1991 #
Mapuche/Coordinadora Arauco
Malleco (CAM), 1992
Movement
of the Revolutionary Left (Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucinaria/MIR), 1965
Proletarian Action Group [1968]
Socialist
Party of Chile (Partido Socialista de Chile/PS), 1933 #
Colombia
el
Clan del Golfo
Emergent
Criminal Gangs (BACRIM)
Gaitanista
Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia/AGC),
drug trafficking group, 2019
Group
of Revolutionary Commandos-Operation Argimiro Gabaldon, [1968]
Invisible
Ones [1968-1979]
Military
Liberation Front of Colombia [1968-1979]
Movement
of 19th April (Movimiento 19 de Abril/M-19), 19 April 1970 #
National
Liberation Armed Forces [1968-1979]
National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación
Nacional/ELN), July 1964
People’s
Liberation Army (PLA) (Ejército Popular de Liberación/EPL), 1967
People’s
Revolutionary Army-Zero Point [1968-1979]
Popular
Front of National Liberation (Frente Popular de Liberación Nacional/FPLN), 1994
Red
Flag [1968-1979]
Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia-People’s Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias
de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo/FARC-EP)* #, 1964
Oliver Sinisterra Front (dissident
group), 2019
10th Front, March 2021,Venezuela
Segunda Marquetalia, Venezuela
Ricardo
Franco Front (RFF) (Frente Ricardo Franco), March 1984
September
14 Workers Self-Defense Command [1968-1979]
United
Front for Guerrilla Action [1968-1979]
United
Self-Defense Forces of Colombia/Group of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia/
(AUC), April 1997 (Note: Commonly referred
to as autodefensas, paramiliaries, or death squads.)
Workers’
Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT), [1985]
Costa Rica
Revolutionary
Commandos of Solidarity [1968-1979]
Roberto
Santucho Revolutionary Group [1968-1979]
Cuba
Abdala
[1968-1979]
Alpha
66 [1968-1979]
Anti-Castro
Commando [1968-1979]
Anti-Communist
Commandos [1968-1979]
Brigade
2506 [1968-1979]
Condor
[1968-1979]
Coordination
of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) [1968-1979]
Cuba
Action [1968-1979]
Cuba
Action Commandos, 1960s
Cuban
Anti-Communist League [1968-1979]
Cuban
C-4 Movement
Cuban
Liberation Front
Cuban
National Liberation Front (FLNC) [1968-1979]
Cuban
Nationalist Movement (CNM) [1964-1979]
Omega 7 [September 1974-1979]
Zero [1970s]
Cuban
Power (el Poder Cubano) [1968-1979]
Cuban
Representation in Exile [1968-1979]
Cuban
Revolutionary Directorate [1968-1979]
Cuban
Youth Group [1968-1979]
International
Secret Revolutionary United Cells [1968-1979]
JCN
[1968-1979]
Latin
American Anti-Communist Army [1968-1979]
Movement
of Cuban Justice [1968-1979]
Movement
of the Seventh (M-7) [1968-1979]
National
Integration Front (Cuban Nationalist Front) (FIN) [1968-1979]
Pedro
Luis Boitel Command [1968-1979]
Pedro
Ruiz Botero Commandos [1968-1979]
Pragmatistas
[1968-1979]
Scorpion
(el Alacran) [1968-1979]
Second
Front of Escambray [1968-1979]
Secret
Anti-Castro Cuban Army [1968-1979]
Secret
Cuban Government [1968-1979]
Secret
Hand Organization [1968-1979]
Secret
Organization Zero [1968-1979]
Young
Cubans [1968-1979]
Youths
of the Star [1968-1979]
Dominican Republic
Dominican
Popular Movement (Movimiento Popular Dominicana/MDP), 1965
Twelfth
of January Liberation Movement [1968-1979]
United
Anti-Reelection Command [1968-1979]
Ecuador
Alfaro
Lives, Damn It! (Alfaro Vive, Carajo!/AVC),
1983
El
Salvador
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMNLF)
(Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación
Nacional/FMLN), October
1980 #
People’s Revolutionary Army (ERP) [1968-1979]
Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Forces (FPL)
Armed Forces of National Resistance (FARN)
[1968-1979]
Central American Revolutionary Worker’s Party
(PRTC), since 1976
Communist Party of El Salvador Armed Forces of
Liberation (FAL)
Clara Elizabeth Ramirez Front (Frente Clara
Elizabeth Ramirez/CERF), since 1983
February
28 Popular Leagues (LP-28)
Popular
Revolutionary Bloc (BPR) [1968-1979]
United
Popular Action Front (FAPU) [1968-1979]
White
Warriors Union (UGB)
Guatemala
January
31 Popular Front, May 1982
Guatemala
Anti-Salvadoran Liberating Action Guerrillas (GALGAS) [1968]
Guatemalan
National Revolutionary Unity (URNG), 1982
Revolutionary Organization of the
People in Arms (ORPA)
Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP)
Revolutionary Armed Forces (ARl PGT/FAR) [1968]
Guatemalan
Nationalist Commando [1968]
National
League for the Protection of Guatemala [1968]
National
Liberation Movement [1968]
Revolutionary
Movement of November 13 (MR-13) [1968]
Guyana
People’s
Temple [1968-1979]
Haiti
Coalition
of National Liberation Brigades [1968-1979]
Haitian
Coalition [1968-1979]
Revolutionary
Armed Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (Front Revolutionnaire
pour
l’Avancement et le Progrès d’Haïti/FRAPH), September 1993
Honduras
Cinchoneros Popular Liberation Movement (Movimiento
Popular de Liberacion/MPL), since 1980
Morazanist Patriotic Front (FPM), 1980s
Popular Revolutionary Forces-Lorenzo Zelaya
(Fuerzas Populares Revolucionarias-Lorenzo
Zelaya/FPR-LZ), since 1978
Mexico
23rd
of September Communist League [1968]
Armed
Communist League [1968]
Armed
Vanguard of the Proletariat [1968]
Guerreros
Unidos, criminal group, 2019
Jalisco
Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion/CJNG) [2010]
Los
Viagras
Mexican
People's Revolutionary Army [1968]
People's Armed Command [1968]
People's
Liberation Army [1968]
People's
Revolutionary Armed Forces (FRAP) [1968]
People’s
Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario Popular/ERP), 1994-1998, 2007
Sinaloa
Cartel
United
Popular Liberation Army of America [1968]
Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional/EZLN), 1994
Zapatista National Liberation Front (Frente
Zapatista de Liberación Nacional/FZLN), 1996 #
Nicaragua
Sandinist National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista
de Liberación Nacional/FSLN), 1961 #
Panama
April
10 Movement (Movimento de 10 Abril/M-10), 2011
Paraguay
Armed Peasant Association
(ACA) (Aug. 2014)
Asociación
Campesina Armada (ACA) (Armed Peasant Association), Aug. 2014
Paraguayan
People’s Army (Ejercito del Pueblo Paraguayo/EPP),
1992
Political
Military Organization [1968-1979]
Popular
Colorado Movement (MoPoCo), dissident faction of Colorado Party) [1968]
Peru
Armed
Nationalist Movement Organization (MANO) [1968]
Condor
[1968-1979]
Movement
of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) [1968]
Peruvian
Anti-Communist Alliance (AAP) [1968]
Revolutionary
Vanguard [1968]
Shining
Path (Sendero Luminoso/SL), 1980
Tupac
Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru/MRTA), 1983
Tupac
Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK), 1993
United States of America
Aryan Brotherhood
Aryan
Nations, 1970s
Aryan
Republican Army [1990s]
Forever Enduring Always
Ready (FEAR), 2012
Jewish
Defense League (JDL), 1968
Ku
Klux Klan (KKK), 1866, incl. North Georgia White Knights, White Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
League
of the Silent Soldier
League of the South, 1994
Militias,
incl. Alabama Free Militia, Idaho Citizens Constitutional Militia, Idaho
Mountain Boys, Jural
Society militia groups, Michigan Militia,
Militia-at-Large of the Republic of Georgia, Mountaineer
Militia, Kentucky Militia, North American
Militia (?), Montana Freemen, Oklahoma Constitutional
Militia, Patriots, Pennsylvania Citizens
Militia, San Joaquin Militia, Southeastern States Alliance,
Texas Militia, Viper Team
Minuteman,
incl. Minuteman American Defense
National Vanguard America
(2005)
New
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP), 1989
The
Oath Keepers, March 2009, far-right anti-government para-military orgsnization
Patriot
movements
Posse
Comitatus [1970s-1980s]
Proud
Boys, 2016, far-right, neo-fascist, chauvinistic
Sovereign Citizens Movement
The Base (June 2018),
Neo-Nazi White Power hate group
Three Percenters, 2008-21
Feb. 2021, far-right, anti-government militia group
White
Aryan Resistance, 1980s
Wolverine Watchmen, 2020s,
far-right paramilitary group, operating in Michigan
Note:
Some of the groups listed do not commit overt acts of violence but agitate
against ethnic groups, government, immigration, and other issues under the guise
of Christianity, constitutional government and rights, and patriotism,
according to US federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. Groups are
often small in size and limited to local areas
United States of America—Puerto Rico
Machete
Wielders (Macheteros), also Boricua Popular Army (Ejercito Popular de
Borico/EPB), 1978
Uruguay
Armed
Popular Front (FAP) [1968]
Communist
Party of Uruguay (Partido Comunista del Uruguay/PCU) #
National
Liberation Movement Tupamaros (Movimiento Nacional de Liberación/MNL), 1961
Organization
of the Popular Revolutionary-33 (OPR-33)
Raul
Sendic International Brigade
Venezuela
Red
Flag (Bandera Roja) (GBR), 1969
Americo Silva Front (Frente Americo Silva/FAS)
Venezuelan Patriot Command (Mar. 2020)
ASIA
Afghanistan
Afghan
Islamic Society [1968-1979]
Afghan
National Liberation Front [1968-1979]
Afghan
National Liberation Movement [1968-1979]
Army of Mohammed (Jaish-e-Mohammed/JeM)
Assembly of the Free (Jama’at ul-Ahrar/JuA), split
from TTP in August 2014
Bajaur
Taliban
Council
of the Union of Holy Warriors (Shura Ittihad-ul-Mujjahideen), March 2009
Fatemiyoun Brigade
[Fatimid Banner] (Liwa Fatemiyoun), Nov. 2014, Afghan
Shi’a militia, also Fatemiyoiun Division, Hizbollah Afghanistan
Haqqani
Network (HQN), also Pakistan, mid 1970s
Islamic
Emirate Afghanistan, 1996 (Taliban shadow government)
Islamic Jihad Movement (Harkat
ul-Jihad-i-Islami/HUJI), 1984
Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Islamic Party (Hizb-i-Islami/HI), 1977 (also
referred to as Islamic Party Gulbuddin
(Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin/HIG)) #
Islamic State of Iraq and
the Sham-Khorasan (ISIS-K/ISIL-K/ISK) [aka Islamic State in Khorasan Province
(ISKP)/ISIS Wilayat Khorasan] 10 January 2015
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
Jihad-e-Islami (JI)
Army of the Righteous
(Lashkar-e-Taiba/LeT)
Movement for the
Enforcement of Islamic Law and Islam (Tehrik-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-
Mohammadi/TNSM))
Taliban Movement of
Pakistan (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan/TTP), 2007
Mullah Dadullah Front (Feday-Mahaz), May 2012
National Islamic Front (JMI)
Northern
Alliance [1996-1999] see United Islamic Front for the
Salvation of Afghanistan
Quetta Shura Taliban
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
Students
of Islam, see Taliban
Swat
Taliban
Taliban Islamic Militia (Tehrik-e-Taliban/TT),
September 1994
Tehrik-e-Nifa-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi
(TNSM)
United
Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islami-yi Milli bara-yi
Nijat-i
Afghanistan/UIFSA)
(formerly Northern Alliance), [1999-2007]:
Islamic Afghan Society (Jamiat-e
Islami)
Islamic Movement of Afghanistan
(Harakat-e Islami-e Afghanistan)
Islamic Party-Khalis (Hizb-e
Islami-Khalis)
Islamic Unity (Ittihad-e Islami)
Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan (Hizb-e Wahdat-e
Islami-e Afghanistan)
Jabha-e Nijat-e-Milli
National Islamic Front (Mahaz-e-Milli-e
Islami)
National Islamic Front
(Jumbish-e-Milli Islami)
Armenia
Armenian
Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (Secret Armenian Liberation
Army/ASALA),
[1975-1986]
3rd October Organization [1975-1986]
The Orly Group [1975-1986]
Karabakh
Liberation Organization (KLO), January 2000
Azerbaijan
Karabakh
Liberation Organization (KLO), January 2000
Bangladesh
al-Harat al-Islamia
al-Islam Martyrs Brigade
al-Jihad Bangladesh
al-Khidmat
Allah’r
Dal militants (Feb. 2021)
Ansarul Islam/Ansar-al-Islam
(Apr. 2016), also known as Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), 2007
(Declared
itself Bangladesh branch of al-Qa’ida, according to government on 5 Mar. 2017.)
Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT)
Army of Allah (Allahr Dal)
(2019)
Awakened
Muslim Masses of Bangladesh (Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh/JMJB), 1998
Base of Jihad (Qaedat
al-Jihad)
Biswa
Islami Front
Bodo
Liberation Tigers (BLT), 1989
Dawat-e
Islam
Hijbul
Mahadi
Hijbullah
Islami Samaj
Hizb-e
Abu Omar
Hizb-ut
Towhid (HT)
Islamic Assembly (Jama’at-e Islami/JI) 1941 #
Islamic
Party of Liberation (Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami) (HT)
Islami
Dawati Kafela
Islami
Democratic Party (IDP) #
Islami
Samaj
Islamic
Jihad Movement-Bangladesh (Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh/HUJI-B), April
1992
Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/ISIS)-Bangladesh (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa al-Sham) (IS)
Jadid
al-Qaeda Bangladesh
Jagrata
Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB)
Juma'atul al Sadat (Jama’at-as-Sadat)
Jama'atul Faliya
Jama'at-e Yahia al Turat
Jama’at-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)
Joysh-e
Mohammad
Joysh-e
Mostafa Bangladesh
Kalemar
Dawat
Muslim
Millat Shari’a Council
National
Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
National
Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT)
National
Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), 1980
National
Socialist Party (Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal/JSD) 1972 #
Shahadat-e
al Hikma Party Bangladesh (8 Feb. 2003)#
Shahadat-e-Nobuat
Society
of Fighters (Jama’at-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh/JMB)
Peace
Force (Shanti Bahini) of the Parbattya Chattagram Janasanghati Samity/PCJSS)
Tamira
Ar-Din Bangladesh (Hizb-e-Abu Omar)
Tanjim
Touhid
Trust Towhidi Janata
Ulama
Anjuman al Bainat
United Bengali Liberation
Front (UBLF)
United
National Liberation Front Manipur (UNLF)
United People’s Democratic
Front (UPDF)
United
Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), 1979
Woarat
Islamic Front
World
Islamic Front for Jihad
Bhutan
Bodo Liberation Tigers
(BLT)
Communist
Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) (CPB-M-L-M), 2003 #
Bhutan Tiger Force (BTF), 2007?
National Democratic Front
of Bodoland (NDFB)
United
Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), 1979
United National Liberation
Front Manipur (UNLF)
United
Revolutionary Front of Bhutan (URFB), 2008?
Burma (Myanmar)
All
Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF) (1988)1
Aqa
Mul Mujahidin (Oct. 2016)
Arakan
Army (AA), Buddhist guerrilla force (10 April 2009)
Arakan
Liberation Party (ALP), April 1967 #1
Arakan-Rohinga
Islamic Front (ARIF), 2001
Arakan
Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), 2016 (formerly Harakah al-Yaqin)
Chin
National Front (CNF), March 19881
Chin National Army (CAN), 1988
Democratic
Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), 19491, see
Kaloh Htoo Baw Armed Group
Karen National Liberation Army
(KNLA)
Karen
National Liberation Army Peace Council (KNLA-PC)
Eastern Shan State Army, see Myanmar National
Democratic Alliance Army
God’s
Army, 1997
Faith
Movement (Harakah al-Yaqin) [2012-2016], see Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army
(ARSA)
Kachin
Independence Army (KIA), 5 February 1961
Kachin
Independence Organization (KIO), see Kachin Independence Army (KIA)
Kaloh
Htoo Baw Armed Group, formerly Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA)
Karen
National Union (KNU), 19491
Kayinni
[Karenni] National Progressive Party (KNPP), 1957
Kayinni Army [Karenni Army] (KA), 1951
KNU/Karen
National Liberation Army-Peace Council (KNU/KNLA-PC)1
Lahu
Democratic Front (LDF)
Lahu
Democratic Union (LDU)1, 2008
Lahu
National Democratic Front (LNDF), 1973
Myanmar
National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), March 1989 (Kokang Army) (Kokang
Democracy Party)
Nai
Pan Nyunt
National
Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT)
National
Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA)
National
Democratic Army-Kachin (NDA-K)
National
Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K)
New
Mon State Party (NMSP)1, 1949
Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA)
Northern
Alliance
Arakan Army (AA)
Kachin Independence Organization
(KIO)
Myanmar National Democratic Alliance
Army (MNDAA)
Ta’ang National Liberation Army
(TNLA
PA-O
National Liberation Organization (PNLO)1 (11 Dec. 1949)
Palaung
State Liberation Front
(PLSF), 2005
Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), January
1992
Palaung
State Liberation Organization (PSLO/A), [-1991]
Restoration
Council of Shan State (RCSS)1, 1964
Restoration Council of Shan State Army (RCSSA)
Shan State Army-North (SSA-North)
Shan State Army-South (SSA-South)
Shan
Democratic Union (SDU)
Shan
State Army (SSA), see Restoration Council of Shan
State (RCSS)
Shan
State National Army (SSNA)
Shan
State Progressive Party (SSPP), 1972
United
League of Arakan (ULA)
Arakan Army (AA) (10 Apr. 2009)
United
Wa State Army (UWSA), 1989
Vigorous
Burmese Student Warriors, 1999
1Part
of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement-Signatories Ethnic Armed Organizations (NCA-S
EAO)
Cambodia
Cambodian
Freedom Fighters (CFF) (Cholana Kangtoap Serei Cheat Kampouchea), November
1998
Party
of Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge/KR), [1963-May 1998]
China—Tibet Autonomous Region
Tibetan
People’s Uprising Movement, January 2008
China—Xinjiang
Uigur Autonomous Region
East
Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), 1992
Turkistan
Islamic Party (TIP), August 2008
India
Note: Naxalites is a
general term used for members of the following organizations:
Communist Party of
India-Marxist (CPI-M)
Communist Party of
India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML)
Communist Party of
India-Marxist-Leninist--Janashakhti (CPI-ML-Janashakhti)
Communist Party of
India-Marxist-Leninist--Liberation (CPI-ML-Liberation)
Maoist Communist Centre
(MCC)
People’s War Group (PWG)
United National Liberation
Front Manipur (UNLF)
Adivasi
National Liberation Army (ANLA) [December 2007]
Adivasi Cobra Force
All-Tripura
Tiger Force (ATTF), 1999
al-Qa’ida in Indian Subcontinent
(AQIS), 3 Sep. 2014
Al-Ummah,
1992
Ananda
Marg
Achik
Matgrik Liberation Army (AMLA), now Achik National Volunteers Council (ANVC)
Achik
National Volunteers Council (ANVC), December 1995
Army
of Mohammed (Jaish-e-Mohammed/JEM), February 2000, Islamist extremist
Army
of the Righteous (Lashkar-e-Tayyiba/LT/LET) [aka Taiyibah, Tayyiba), 1989,
Islamist
extremist
Birsa
Commando Force
Bodo
Liberation Tigers (BLT), 1989
Communist Party of
India-Maoist (CPI-M)*
Maoist Communist Centre (MCC)
People’s Guerilla Group (PPG)
People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA)
People’s War Group (PWG), 1969
Communist
Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)
People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA)
Communist
Party of India-Marxist-Leninist--Janashakhti (CPI-ML-Janashakhti)
Communist
Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML) #
People’s
War Group (PWG), 1969
Communist
Party of India-Marxist-Leninist--Liberation (CPI-ML-Liberation)
Dima
Halong Daogah (DHD), 2003
Black Widow faction
Jewel Garlossa faction (DHD-J)
Gorkha
Janamukti Morcha (GJM), October 2007 #
Gorkhaland
Liberation Organisation (GLO)
Gorkha
National Liberation Front (GNLF)
Hajong
United Liberation Army (HULA)
Islamic
Jihad Movement (Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami) (HUJI), 1984
Islamic State of Iraq and
the Sham-Khorasan (ISIS-K/ISIL-K/ISK) [aka Islamic State in Khorasan Province
(ISKP)/ISIS Wilayat Khorasan] 21 June 2018
Hynniewtrep
Achik Liberation Council (HALC) [-1992]
Hynniewtrep
National Liberation Council (HNLC), 1992
Hynniewtrep National Youth Front
Tiger Force (HNYTF), 2004
Hynniewtrep State Democratic Front
(HSDF) #
Indian
Mujahideen (IM), 2008
Islamic
Liberation Army (ILA), 1990s
Islamic
Security Force (ISF), see Indian Mujahideen
Jammu
and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), May 1977
Kamptapuri
Liberation Organisation (KLO), 2002
Karbi
Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF)
Khalistan
Movement
Khalistan
Zindabad Force (KZF)
Kuki National Army (KNA)
Kuki National Organization
(KNO)
Army of the Righteous
(Lashkar-e-Taiba [aka Tayyiba]LeT), also operating as
Milli Muslim League (MML) and Tehreek-e Azadi-e Kashmir (TAJK)
Liberation
Islamic Tiger Force, November 2001
Manipur People’s Army (MPA)
Manipur People’s Liberation
Front (MPLF)
Movement
for Freedom for Azad and Kashmir, Apr. 2018
Movement
of Combatants (Harkat-ul-Mujahidin/HUM), 1995
Movement of Islamic Holy War
[aka Islamic
Struggle Movement] (Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami/HUJI), 1984
Muslim
Liberation Army (MLA), June 1994
Muslim
Liberation Tigers of Assam (MULTA), late 1990s
Muslim
United Liberation Front of Assam (MULFA)
Muslim
United Liberation Tigers, 1993
National
Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
National
Liberation Front of Bengalis (NLFB)
National
Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT)
National
Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), 1980
National
Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-I-M), 1980
National
Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K), 1980
Party
of Holy Warriors (Hizb-ul-Mujahideen/HM), 1989
People’s
Liberation Front of Meghalaya (PLF-M)
People’s
United Liberation Front (PULF), 1994
Pnar
Liberation Army (PLA), 2004
Retrieval
of Indigenous United Front (RIUF)
Sikh
Khalistan network
10th Regiment (Dashmesh), 1982
All-India Sikh Students Federation (of Akali Dal)
Babbar Khalsa (BK),
1984, see Babbar Khalsa International
Babbar Khalsa
International (BKI), 2000
Bhindranwala Tiger
Force of Khalistan (BTFK), 1984
Dal Khalsa, 13 April 1979
International Sikh Youth Federation (ISFY), 1984
Khalistan Liberation Tiger Force
Khalistan Commando Force
Khalistan Liberation Front
Khalistan National Army
Saheed Khalsa Force, 1997
Students
Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), April 1977
Tamil
Nadu Liberation Army (TMLA)
Tehrik-i-Azadi-i-Kashmir
(TAK)
The
Resistance Group (TRF), Kashmir, Nov. 2021
United
Achik National Front (UANF), 2004
United Bengali Liberation
Front (UBLF)
United
Gurkha National Front (UGNF), 2006
United Kuki Liberation Front
(UKLF)
United Liberation Front of
Assam
(ULFA), 1979
United
National Liberation Front (UNLF)
United
National Liberation Front Manipur (UNLF)
United
People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS)
Universal
Proutist Revolutionary Front
Indonesia
Abode
of Islam (Darul Islam), 1930s
Darul Islam Holy War Command [1968-1979]
Free
Merdeka/Free Aceh Movement (Aceh Merdeka/Gerakan Aceh Merdeka/GAM), 4 December
1977
Free
Papua Movement (Organisasai Papua Merdeka/OPM), 1963
National Liberation Army of Free Papua Organisation
(Tentara Pembebasan Nasional/
TPN/OPM),
also referred to as West Papua National Liberation Army, 1971
Free
South Moluccan Youth Organization [1968-1979]
Front
for the Liberation of Aceh-Sumatra [1968-1979]
Islamic
Community (Jemaah Islamiya/JI), 2002 (also Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand)
Islamic
Defenders Front (FPI), 1997
Islamic
Party of Liberation (Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami) (HT), 1953, banned in July 2017
Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya
fil-Iraq wa al-Sham)
Jemmah
Anshorut Tauhid (JAT) [also Jamaah
Ansharut Daulah/JAD], 2008
Lashkar
Jihad, 2000
East
Indonesia Mujahideen (Mujahidin Indonesia Timur/MIT), 1999, ISIL allegiance
2014, UN ban 1999 for AQI support
United
Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), December 2014
West Papua National Coalition for
Liberation (WPCNL)
Federal Republic of West Papua
(NRFPB)
National Parliament of West Papua
(NPWP)
National Committee for West Papua (Komite Nasional
Papua Barat/KNPB), November 2008
West
Papua National Coalition for Liberation, 20 December 2005
West Papua National Liberation
Army (Tentara Pembebasan Nasional/TPN)
Japan
Aleph,
18 January 2000, see Aum Shinrikyo Aum
Anti-Japan
Armed Front of East Asia [1968]
Army of the Red Star, see Japanese Red Army (JRA)
Arab
Red Army, see Japanese Red Army (JRA)
Aum
Supreme Truth (Aum Shinrikyo Aum/AUM), [1987-2000]
Japanese
Red Army (JRA) (Nippon Sekigun), February 1971
Anti-Imperialist International Brigade (AIIB), 1970
Maruseido
(Marxist Youth League) [1968]
Nucleus
Faction (Chukaku-Ha) [also Middle Core], 1963
Okinawa
Liberation League [1968]
Red
Army Faction (Sekigun-ha) [1968]
United
Red Army, see Red Army Faction
Kazakhstan
at-Takfir wal Hijra (Condemnation and Exodus), 1971, banned on
15 Oct. 2014.
Soldiers
of the Caliphate (Jund al-Khlafah), 2011
Kyrgyzstan
Front of the Supporters
Jabhat al-Nusra Front) (ANF)
Islamic
Party of Liberation (Hizb-ut-Tahrir al-Islami) (HT), 1953 #
Laos
Free
Democratic People’s Government, 2003
Lao
Citizen’s Movement for Democracy (LCMD)
Malaysia
Kumpulan
Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM), 1995
Organization
for the Basis of Holy War (Tanzim Qaedat-al-Jihad), 2006
Nepal
Communist
Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), 1994 #
Madhesi
Mukti Tigers (MKT)
Madhesi
People’s Rights Forum (MPRF)
Madhesi Virus Killers (MVK)
Terai Cobra
Terai People’s Liberation Front, 2004 (Janatantrik
Terai Mukti Morcha) (JTMM)
United Terai People’s Liberation Front (United Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha)
(UJTMM)
United Madhesi Democratic
Front (UDMF) (2007)
United
People’s Front (Samjukta Janabadi Morcha/SJM), 1996
Pakistan
Al-Badhr
Mujahidin, 1998
Army
of Islam (Lashkar-e-Islam/LeI)
Army
of Justice (Jaish al-Adl), 2019, formerly Soldiers of God (Jundallah)
Army
of Mohammed (Jaish-e-Mohammed/JEM), February 2000, Islamist extremist
Army
of the Jhangvi (Lashkar-e-Jhangvi/LeJ/LJ), 1999
Army of the Jhangvi International
(Lashkar-i-Jhangvi al-Alami/LeJ/LJA)
Army
of the Companions of the Prophet (Sipah-e-Sahaba) (Pakistan/SSP), mid-1980s,
see
Followers of Ahlu Sunnah wa’l Jama’at
Army of the Righteous (Lashkar-e-Taiba/LT/LET),
1989, Islamist extremist
Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF)
Assembly of the Free (Jama’at ul-Ahrar), split from
TTP in August
2014
Baloch
Defaee Tanzeem
Baloch
Liberation Front (BLF)
Baloch
Musalla Difa Organisation (BMDO)
Baloch Raji Ajoi Sangar
(BRAS) alliance (18 April 2019)
Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA)
Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF)
Balochistan Republican Guard
Balochistan
Republican Army (BRA)
Baluchistan
Army (Lashkar-i-Balochistan/LB)
Baluchistan
Liberation Army (BLA), 2000
Baloch
Liberation United Front (BLUF), 2009
Community
of the Impoverished (Jama’at ul-Fuqra), early 1980s
Defense
Pakistan (Difa-e Pakistan), 2012
Fediane
Islam, September 2008
Followers of Ahlus Sunnah wa’l Jama’at (Ahlu Sunnah wa’l
Jama’at/ASWJ) #, formerly Army of the
Companions of the Prophet (Sipah-i-Sahaba
Pakistan/SSP) 1980s-2012,
banned 2002,
2012)
Freedom Fighters’ Group
(Jama’at-e-Ahrar) (Aug. 2014)
Guardians
of the Friends of the Prophet (Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan/SSP) [September
1985-2003],
see Millat-e-Islamia
Pakistan
Haqqani
Network (HQN), see Afghanistan
Indian
Mujahideen (IM), 2008
Islamic
Assembly (Jamaat-e-Islami), 1941, see also Party of
Holy Warriors
Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan (IMU) (June 2014)
Islamic Jihad Movement
(Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami/HUJI), 1984, Islamist extremist
Islamic State Pakistan
Province, 15 May 2019 (Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan
(ISIS-K/ISIL-K/ISK) [aka Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP)/ISIS Wilayat
Khorasan]
Jama’at
ul-Furqaan
Jamiat
ul-Ansar (JuA) (also known as Al-Faran, Al-Hadid Al-Hadith)
Jammu
and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), May 1977
Jammu and Kashmir National
Liberation Front (JKNLF) [-1991]
J and K Plebiscite Front, [-1991]
Kashmir Freedom Movement, [-1991]
Tehrik Islamia Jamhooria Kashmir,
[-1991]
Al-Mujaheddin-fil-Islam, [-1991]
Quami Twehrik Azadi Kashmir, [-1991]
Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz
(JSQM) Party (June 1995)
Jeay Sindh Quami
Mahaz-Aresar Group (JSQM-A) (2006)
Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) Party (26 Nov. 2000)
Jihad-e-Islami (JI)
Khalistan
Commando Force (Panjwar)
Khalistan
Zindabad Force (KZF)
Khudam-ul-Islam,
Islamist extremist, formerly Army of Mohammed (Jaish-e-Mohammed/JEM),
February 2000, Islamist extremist
Markaz Daw'a wal Irshad [1985-December 2001]
Millat-e-Islamia
Pakistan (MIP), 2003, formerly Guardians of the Friends of the Prophet
Movement
for the Enforcement of Islamic Law (Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi),
1980s
Movement
for Freedom for Azad
and Kashmir (Tehrik-i-Azadi-i-Kashmir (TAK), April 2018
Movement for the Safeguarding of the First Center of Prayer (Tehrik-e-Tahafuz Qibla
Awal/TTQA),
2008, formerly Jama’at-ud-Da’wah (JuD)
Movement
of Combatants (Harkat ul-Mujahidin/HUM), 1985-1998, see Movement of Fighters
Movement
of Fighters (Harkat-ul Ansar/HUA), October 1993
Movement of Fighters (Tehrik-ul-Mujaheddin), -1991, see Movement of Combatants
Movement
of the Followers (Tehrik-e-Jafria), 1979
Movement
for Enforcement of Islamic Law and Islam
(Tanzeem-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi/
TNSM), 1980s
Movement
for the Renewal of Islam (Tanzeem-e-Islami/TI), 1975
National Islamic Front
(JMI)
Organization for Preaching
(Jama’at-ud-Dawah) (JuD), 1985
Party
of Holy Warriors (Hizb-ul-Mujahideen/HM), 1989
Qari
Mushtaq Group, 2009?
Sindhu Desh Revolutionary
Army (SRA) (2012)
Sindhu Desh Liberation Army
(SLA) (2010)
Society
of Combatants (Jama’at ul-Mujahidin/JUM), 1990
Society
of the Call [‘to Prayer] (Jama’at-ud-Da’wah/JuD) [December 2001-2008], formerly
Markaz
Daw'a wal
Irshad
Taliban Islamic Militia
Taliban
Movement of Pakistan (Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan/TTP), 2007, allegiance to
ISIL 4 Oct. 2014
Abdullah
Azzam Shaheed Brigade (AASB)
Tora
Bora Group, February 2007
United
Baloch Army (UBA)
Qari
Mushtaq Group, 2009?
Philippines
Abu
Sayyaf Group (ASG), 1991, see Islamic Community
Ajang-Ajang gang [2019]
Alex
Boncayao Brigade (ABB), mid-1980s
Bangsamoro
Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), 1977
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom
Movement (BIFM)
Communist
Party of the Philippines (CPP) (Partido
Komunista ng Pilipinas/PKP), 1930, 26
December 1968
New People’s Army (NPA) (Bagong Hukbong Bayan), December 1969
Dawlah Islamiyah Torayfie
Group (DITG)
Islamic
Movement (al-Harakat al-Islamiya), 1991
Islamic
Community (Jemaah Islamiya/JI), see Indonesia
Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/ISIS)-Philippines (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa al-Sham) (IS)
Maute
Group
Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), 1984
Moro
National Liberation Front (MNLF), 1968
National
Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), 1969
Peoples’
Revolutionary Front
Philippines
Kabataang Makabayan (PKM)
Rajah
Solaiman Movement (RSM), January 2002
Revolutionary
Proletarian Army (RPP)
Supporters of the Caliphate
in the Philippines (Ansara Khilafa Philippines), Aug.
2014
Sri Lanka
Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da'esh)
Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), [1972-May 2009]
Ellalan Force
World Tamil Association (WTA)
World Tamil Movement (WTM), 1986
National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ)
(Jamā‘at at-Tawḥīd al-Waṭanīyah ) (JTW) (2016)
Sangilian
Force, see Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Tamil
United Liberation Front (TULF), 1976
Taiwan
People's
Liberation Front [1968]
World
United Formosans for Independence [1968]
Tajikistan
Islamic
Party of Liberation (Hizb-ut-Tahrir al-Islami) (HT), 1953 #
Society
of Allah’s Soldiers (Jama’at Ansarullah), September 2010
United
Tajik Opposition (UTO), 1991-1997
Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT)
Islamic
Renaissance Party (IRP) {aka Islamic Revival Party] (Nazdate Islamiye
Tajikistan)
Resurrection (Rastokhez)
Ruby of Badakhshon (Lali Badakhshon)
Thailand
National
Revolutionary Front (Barisan Revolusi Nasional/BRN), 1968
National
Revolutionary Front-Coordinate (BRN-C)
New Pattani United
Liberation Organization (New Pulo) (Pattani United Liberation
Organization/PULO), 2004
Pattani
National Liberation Front (Barisan
Revolusi Nasional Patani Melayu/BRN, also Barisan
Nasional Pembebasan Patani/BNPP) (13 Mar.
1963)
Patani
Independence Fighters (Pejuang
Kemerdekaan Patani)
Timor Leste
East
Timor National Liberation Forces (FALANTIL), 1 February 2001 #
Revolutionary
Front for an Independent East Timor (Frente Revolucionário Do Timor Leste
Independente/FRETILIN), 1974 #
Turkmenistan
Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), 1998-2001, see Islamic
Party of Turkmenistan
Islamic
Party of Turkmenistan (Jama’at-I Turkestan), 2001
Uzbekistan
Islamic
Jihad Union (IJU) (al-Djihad al-Islami/Dzhamaat Modzhakhedov), early 2000s
Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), 1998
Jihad
Islamic Group (JIG), early 2000s
Katibat
al-Imam al-Bukhari (KIB)
EUROPE
Albania
Anti-Communist
Military Council [1968-1979]
Austria
Justice
Guerrilla [1968-1979]
Belgium
Combatant Communist Cells (Cellules Communistes
Combattantes/CCC) [1984-1985]
Julien
Lahaut Brigade [1968-1979]
Revenge
and Freedom [1968-1979]
Croatia
Croatian
National Liberation Forces-Fighters for a Free Croatia [1968]
Croatian
National Resistance [1968]
Young
Croatian Army for Freedom [1968]
Young
Croatian Republican Army [1968]
Cyprus
National
Organization of Cypriot Fighters (Enosis Movement/(EOKA-B)
[1968-1979]
National
Patriotic Front M.P. 14/31 [1968-1979]
France
6th
of March Group [1968-1979]
Action
Direct (Accion Directe/AD), 1979
Action
Front for the Liberation of the Baltic Countries [1968-1979]
Andreas
Baader Commando [1968-1979]
Armed
Corsica (Armata Corsa), 1999
Autonomous
Intervention Collective Against the Zionist Presence
in France [1968-1979]
Avengers
[1968-1979]
AZF,
2004
Brittany
Liberation Front-Breton Republican Army Brittany Revolutionary Front (Front Libération de
la Bretagne-Armée Republicain Breton/FLB-ARB)
Charles
Martel Group [1968-1979]
Clandestine
(Clandestinu), November 1999?, inactive, see also
Union of Combattants
Committee
for Socialist Revolutionary Unity [1968-1979]
Committee
of Coordination [1968-1979]
Corsican
Movement for Self-Determination (Mouvement Corse pour l’Autodétermination/MCA)
Corsican National Liberation Front (Front de
Libération Nationale de la Corse/FLNC), 1976-1990,
defunct (Split into
FLNC-Historical Channel, FLNC-Usual Channel, and Resistance)
Corsican National Liberation Front-Union of
Combatants (Union des Combattants/FLNC-UC), 1990:
Clandestine
(Clandestinu)
Corsican National
Liberation Front of 5 May 1996
FLNC-Historical Channel
FLNC-Usual Channel
Corsican National Liberation Front of 5 May 1996
(Front de Libération Nationale de la Corse du 5
mai 1996/FLNC), 5 May 1996
Corsican Patriotic Front (Fronte patriotu
corsu/FPC)
Corsican Revolutionary Armed Front (Front Armé
Révolutionnaire Corse/FARC), 1992
FLNC-Historical Channel (FLNC-Canal Historique), 26
November 1990
FLNC-Usual
Channel (FLNC-Canal Habituel), 1990
Génération
Identitaire, 2012, far-right racist, vigilante group, banned 3 Mar. 2021
Group
for the Defense of Europe [1968-1979]
International
Revolutionary Solidarity [1968-1979]
International
Solidarity [1968-1979]
Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da'esh)
Jewish
Self-Defense Front [1968-1979]
Masada
Action and Defense Movement [1968-1979]
Movement
of Youthward Brothers in War of the Palestinian People [1968-1979]
Nationalist
Revolutionary Movement (Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire/MNR), 1979-1985,
see TV
New
Order [1968-1979]
Organization
Delta [1968-1979]
Rebel
Front (Fronte ribellu), 1995
Red
Army Faction of Southern France [1968-1979]
Resistance
(Resistenza), 1990
Revolutionary
Nationalist Youth (Jeunesses Nationalistes Révolutionnaires/JNR), 1980
Secret
Army Organization [1954-1962], right-wing (Organisation
Armée Secrète/OAS)
Servants
of Allah the Mighty and the Wise, 2004
Solidarity
Resistance Front [1968-1979]
Talion
Law [1968-1979]
Those
of the North (Iparretarrak), 1980
Third
Way (Troisième Voie/TV),
1985-2013
Union
of Corsican People, 14 July 1977 (Union du peuple corse (UPC))
Unité
Radicale
We
Must Do Something [1968-1979]
Youth
Action Group [1968-1979]
France—New Caledonia
Kanak
Socialist National Liberation Front (Front de Libération Nationale Kanak
Socialiste) (FLNKS),
July 1984
United
Kanak Liberation Front (Front Uni de Libération Kanak) (FULK), 1990s
Germany
2
June Movement (2. Juni Bewegung)
Action Office Middle Rhine
Andreas
Baader Commando of the Red Army Faction [1968-1979]
Autonomous
Nationalists (Autonome Nationalisten/AN), 1990
Baader-Meinhof
Group (Baader-Meinhof Gruppe/BMG), (since 1960s) see Red Army Fraction
Baader
Solidarity Group [1968-1979]
Free
Network South (Freies Netz Süd) [2009-23 July 2014] (prohibited)
German
Liberation Popular Front, Andreas Baader Brigade [1968-1979]
Help Organization for National Political Prisoners
and their Families (Hilfsorganisation für nationale
politische Gefangene und deren Angehörige e.V./HNG), [1979-2011]
Holger Meins Brigade [1968-1979]
Holger Meins Kommando, Revolutionary Cell
[1968-1979]
Informal Anarchist
Federation (Federazione Anarchia Informale/FAI)
International
Anti-Terror Organization [1968-1979]
Liberation
Action (Befreiungsaktion), see Red Army Fraction
National Socialist Underground
(Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund/NSU), 1998
Puig
Antich-Ulrike Meinhof Commando [1968-1979]
Red
Army Faction (RAF) (Rote Armee Fraktion/RAF), [14 May 1970-16 April 1998],
dissolved
Revolutionary
Cell Brigade Ulrike Meinhof [1968-1979]
Revolutionary
Cells (Revolutionäre Zellen/RZ), 1973
Revolution
Chemnitz, Sep. 2018
Robert
E. D. Straker Commando of the Territorial Resistance Army [1968-1979]
Second
of June Movement [1968-1979]
Socialist
Patients Collective [1968-1979]
Ulrike
Meinhof Commando [1968-1979]
Greece
Army
Officers Representing the Free Greek Spirit [1968]
Coalition
of Anarchists, 2009
Conspiracy
of Nuclei of Fire-Nihilists Sect (SPTF)
February
12 Movement, 2012
Free
Greeks [1968]
Free Initiative of Thessaloniki (May 2018)
Greek
Anti-Dictatorial Youth (EAN) [1968]
Greek
Militant Resistance [1968]
Greek
People [1968]
Independence-Liberation-Resistance
(AAA) [1968]
National
Youth Resistance Organization [1968]
Nea
Filadelphia Anarchist Collective (May 2018)
Patriotic
Front [1968]
Peoples
Resistance Organized Army [1968]
Popular Fighters Group
(Omadas Laikon Agoniston/OLA) (2013)
Popular
Liberation Organized Army [1968]
Popular
Resistance Sabotage Group-II (LAOS 11) [1968]
Popular
Resistance Sabotage Group Number 13 (LAOS Number 13) [1968]
Popular
Resistance Sabotage Group People Number One (LAOS People Number One) [1968]
Popular
Revolutionary Resistance Group [1968]
Revenge
Conspiracy FAI/IRF-Mikhail Zhlobitsky's Cell, April 2019
Revolutionary
Nuclei (RN), 1995
Revolutionary
Cells and Revolutionary People’s Struggle (Epanastatikos Laikos Agonas/ELA),
1973-1995, inactive
Revolutionary
Organization 17 November (17 November/N17) (Epanastaiki Organosi 17 Noemvri),
[1975-2002]
Revolutionary Struggle (RS)
(Epanastatikos Aghonas/EA), 2003
Rouvikonas (Rubicon) anarchist collective (Mar. 2015)
Sect
of Revolutionaries (SE), February 2009
Union
of Officers Struggling for the National Idea [1968]
Urban
Warfare Guerrilla, 2012
Hungary
Hungarian
Guard Movement (Magyar Gárda Mozgalom)
(MGM), 2007-2009
Ireland
Sinn
Fein, 1905 #
Italy
Anti-Imperialist
Territorial Nuclei (NTA), 1995
Anti-Imperalist Territorial Units
Armed
Proletarians for Communism (Proletari Armati per il Comunismo/PAC) [1976-1979]
Armed
Proletarian Nuclei (NAP) [1968]
Armed
Proletarian Power [1968]
Autonomous
Workers Movement [1968]
Black
Order (Ordine Nero) [1968]
Circle
Mario Gallesi, December 2011
Combatants
for Communism [1968]
Front
Line (PL)
Informal
Anarchy Federation (Federazione Anarchia Informale/FAI) [2011]
International Revolutionary
Front (FIR)
Italy
Armed Communist Formations [1968]
New
Order (Ordine Nuovo/ON), 1969 (dissolved by government 1973), December 2014
Elite Guard of New Order
(Avanguardia Ordinovista)
New
Red Brigades/Communist Combatant Party (Brigate Rossi/Partito Comunista
Combattente/
BR/PCC), 1999
Nucleus
of the Armed Revolution (NAR)
Proletarian
Committee of Subversion for Better Justice [1968]
Proletarian
Internationalism [1968]
Proletarian
Justice [1968]
Proletarian
Squad [1968]
Red
Brigades (Brigate Rosse) (BR), 1969-1987
Red
Guerrilla [1968]
Revolutionary
Action Group/Revolutionary Action Movement (MAR) [1968]
Revolutionary
Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR), 2000
Veneto
League (Liga Veneta), 1979, separatist
Kosovo
Albanian
National Army (ANA), 2001
Army
for the Liberation of the Albanian Occupied Territories (AÇTOSH), 2012
Army
of the Republic of Kosovo (ARK), 2008
Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) (Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosoves/UÇK), 1993
Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and
Bujanovac (Ushtria Çlirimtare e Preshevës, Medvegjës
dhe Bujanocit/UÇPMB/OVPMB), [1999-May 2000]
Netherlands
Red
Brigades [1968]
Revolutionary
Peoples Resistance of the Netherlands [1968]
North Macedonia
Albanian
National Army (Armata Kombëtare Shqiptare/AKSH), 2001
Christian
Organization (Hristianska Organizacija), 2012
Ethnic
Albanian Armed Group (EEAG), see National Liberation
Army (NLA)
Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and
Bujanovac (Ushtria Çlirimtare e Preshevës, Medvegjës
dhe Bujanocit/UÇPMB),
[1999-May 2000]
National
Liberation Army (NLA) (Ushtria Çlirimtare Kombetare/UÇK), [fall 1999-September
2001]
Portugal
Action
Group for Communism [1968]
Armed
Revolutionary Organization (ORA), see Popular Forces of 25 April
Autonomous
Revolutionary Groups (GAR), see Popular Forces of 25 April
Portuguese
Anti-Communist Movement [1968]
Portuguese
Liberation Army [1968]
Revolutionary
Internationalist Solidarity [1968]
Popular
Forces of 25 April (Forces Populares 25 de Abril/FP-25), 1980
Portugal—Azores
Azorean
Liberation Front (FLA) [1975-1989]
Azorean
Nationalist Movement (ANM), 1991
Russia
Arab
Mujahideen in Chechnya
Caucasian
Front (2005)
Caucasian
Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz/IK) (Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus), also Chechnya,
Condemnation
and Migration (at-Takfir wal Hijra), 2020
Dagestan,
Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania Republic, October 2007
Caucasus
Emirate
Islamist
Caucasian Front
Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da'esh), 2019
North
Caucasian Front (Jama’at), 1999
Russian
Imperial Movement (Russkoe imperskoe
dvizhenie)
(RID), 2002
Imperial Legion (2008)
Vilayat
Dagestan, 2014
(USSR)
October
15 Commando [1968-1979]
Russia―Bashkortostan
Islamic
Party of Liberation (Hizb ut-Tachrit al-Islami), 1995
Russia—Chechnya Republic
Arab
Mujaheddin in Chechnya, 1955
Caucasian
Emirate (Emarat Kavkaz/Imarat Kavkaz), October 2007
Caucasian
Front (Ichkeria Chechen Republic), May 2005
Ichkeria Chechen Republic (Chechen Republic
Ichkeria/CRI/RI), November 1991
Islamic
International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB), 1998
Riyadus-Salikhin
Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (RSRSBCM), 2002
Special
Purpose Islamic Regiment (SIPR), 2002
Russia—Ingushetia Republic
Armed Forces of the Vilayat Ghalghaycho (Ingush
Jama’at), 2005
Society
(Jama’at), 1994
Russia—North Ossetia-Alania Republic
Ossetian Jama‘at (Kata‘ib al-Khoul), 2006
Serbia
Freedom
for the Serbian Fatherland (SOPO) [1968]
Obraz,
2001
Trotskyist
Organization [1968]
Spain
Anti-ETA
Terrorism (ATE)
Anti-Fascist
Resistance Group of October 1 (GRAPO), see First of October Antifascist
Resistance
Group
Apostolic
Anti-Communist Alliance (AAA)
Basque Armed Revolutionary Worker’s Organization (Iraultza), 1982?
Basque
Fatherland and Liberty (Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna/ETA), [1959-May 2018]
Basque Fatherland and Freedom
Military Front (ETA-M)
Basque Fatherland and Freedom
Political-Military Front (ETA-PM)
Commando
of Solidarity with Euzkadi [1968]
First
of October Antifascist Resistance Group (Grupo de Resistencia Anti-Fascista
Primero de
Octubre/GRAPO), 1975
Free
Land (Terra Lliure) [in Catalonia], since 1970s
Hammer
and Sickle Cooperative [1968]
Iberian
Liberation Movement (MIL) [1968]
International
Revolutionary Action Group (GARI) [1968]
Juan
Paredes Manot International Brigade [1968]
Nationalist
Intervention Group [1968]
Popular
Revolutionary Armed Front (FRAP) [1968]
Red
Army for the Liberation of Catalonia (ERCA), 1987
Spanish
Armed Groups [1968]
Spanish
National Association [1968]
Warriors
of Christ and King (GCR) [1968]
Spain—Canary Islands
Canary
Islands Independence Movement [1968]
Canary
Islands Intelligence Service [1968]
Movement
for Self-Determination and Independence for the Canary Islands (MPAIAC) [1968]
Sweden
B-26 [1968-1979]
Free Nationalists (Fria nationalister)
Info 14
Nordic Union
Resistance
(Motstånd) network
People’s Front (Folkfronten) (formerly National
Socialist Front)
Swedish Resistance Movement (Svenska
motståndsrörelsen)
Switzerland
Les Béliers de Jura [1968-1979]
Petra
Kraus Group [1968-1979]
Ukraine
Condemnation
and Migration (at-Takfir wal Hijra), 2009
United Kingdom
al-Ghurabaa, 2004?
al-Muhajiroon, [1956-2004]
Islam
4UK
Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da'esh)Muslims
Against Crusades (MAC)
Saved
sect, 2004?
Teyrebaz
Azadiye Kurdistan
United Kingdom—Northern Ireland
Black
Liberation Army [1968]
Continuity
Army Council, see Continuity Irish Republican Army
Continuity
Irish Republican Army (CIRA), 1994
Irish
Freedom Fighters [1968]
Irish
National Liberation Army (INLA), 1975
Irish
Republican Prisoners Welfare Association
Irish
Republican Army (IRA) (Oglaigh na hEireann), 1969*
Loyalist
Volunteer Force (LVF), 1996
New
Irish Republican Army (NIRA)
Orange
Volunteers (OV), July 1997
Provisional
Irish Republican Army (PIRA) (Provos),
(also Provisional Wing of the IRA), 1970,
see Irish Republican
Army
Real
IRA (RIRA), February-March 1998, 2009
Red
Hand Defenders (RHD), 1998
True
IRA, see Real IRA
Ulster
Defense Association (UDA), 1971
Ulster
Freedom Fighters (UFF)
Ulster
Volunteer Force (UVF), 1966
Young
Militants [1968-1979]
*Renounced
use of violence on 28 July 2005.
MIDDLE EAST
Bahrain
al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB)(2013), supported by Iran
al-Mukhtar Brigade (Saraya al-Mukhtar/SaM) (2011), Shi’ite, supported by IRGC
National
Liberation Front of Bahrain (NLF), [1955-2000], now Progressive Democratic Tribune–
Bahrain
(PDT-B) (Jam'iyyat al-minbar ad-dimuqrati at-taqadummi
or al-Minbar), 2002 #
Iran
Arab
Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, 2017
Army
of Justice (Jaish al-Adl), 2012/2013
Iran
Fedayeen Forghan [1968-1979]
Iranian
Peoples Strugglers (IPS) (Mujahedin-e Khalq) [1968-1979]
Iranian
Students Association (lSA) [1968-1979]
Moslem
Liberation Front [1968-1979]
National Council of
Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
National
Front Forces of Iran [1968-1979]
North
Azarbayjan Liberation Front, 2001
Party
of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), see Iraq
People’s Mujahedeen/Warriors of Iran (PMOI)
(Mujahedin-e Khalq-e/MEK), 1965
Muslim Iranian Student’s Society
National Council of Resistance (NCR)
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
National Liberation Army (NLA) (Mujahedin-e Khalq-e
Organization/MKO), 1987
People's Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI), 2009
Reza Rezai International Brigades [1968-1979]
Sazman-e Mujahedin-e Khalq-e, see People’s
Mujahedeen
Soldiers
of God (Jundullah/Jund-Allah), [2002-2009], now People's Resistance Movement
of Iran (PRMI)
Sunny
Army of Justice (Jaish al-Adl)
Iraq
al-Hashd al-Sha’abi Shi’a Popular
Mobilization Forces (PMF)
● League of Righteous People
(Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq/AAH)
(also Khazali Network) (July 2006)
The Righteous Promise (al
Wa’ada al-Haq) brigades (2021)
al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI), 2004
al-Qa’ida Kurdish Battalions (AQKB), 2007
Ansar
al-Mahdi, 1998
Army
of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order (AMNO) (Jaish Riyal al-Tariq al-Nagshabandi)
(JRTN), December 2006
Army
of the Protectors of the Sunna (Jaish Ansar al-Sunna), 2003
Awakening
[Militia] (Al-Sahwa), 2007s
Ba'ath/Sunni
anti-government and anti-coalition groups
Change
and Reform Front, September 2007, coalition:
1920 Revolution Brigades
Mohammed al-Fatih Brigades
Democratic
Party of Kurdistan (DPK), 1959 # (Kurdish Democratic Party) (KDP until 1956)
Fighters
[Soldiers] of Islam (Ansar al-Islam/AI/AAI), September 2001
Partisans of Islam
Helpers of Islam
Supporters of Islam
Free
Iraq [1968-1979]
Harakat
al-Nujaba (HAN), 2013, ICRG supported
Iraqi
Muslim Brotherhood, 1946
Iraqi
National Congress (INC), 16-19 June 1992, engaged in minor armed action #
Constitutional Monarchist Movement
Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DKP)
Islamic Call (al-Da’wah
al-Islamiyah)
Iraqi National Accord, (INA), 1990
Islamic Movement of Iraqi Kurdistan
(IMIK)
Kurdistan Front (KF)
Kurdistan People’s Party (KPP/KPDP)
Kurdistan Socialist Party (KSP)
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), 1982 #
Holy Warriors
(al-Mujaheddin)
Imam Soldiers (Jund al-Imaam)
Islamic Action
Organization (Munadhdhamat al-‘Amal al-Islami)
Islamic Call (al-Da’wah
al-Islamiyah)
Islamic Movement in Iraq
Islamic Scholars
Organization
Islamic
Liberation Army, 1954
Islamic
Resistance in Iraq (Kata’ib Hizbollah/KH), 2006
Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa al-Sham),
2004, anti-government. Created as Jam’mat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Organization of Monotheism and Jihad)
(JTJ), [1999-2004], succeeded by al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI), Tanzim Qaidat
al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (TQJBR)
(Organization of Jihad's Base in Mesopotamia). Islamic State of Iraq
(ISI/IS), proclaimed 29 June 2014. (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) declared
allegiance to the Islamic State (IS), it was reported
on 4 October 2014. Boko Haram pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS)
according to an unverified BH Twitter audio message reported on 8 March 2015.)
See Syria
Amaq News Agency
Al Hayat Media Center
Kata’ib Hizbollah (KH)
militia, supported by Iran
Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (Sayyids of Martyrs), Iraqi
Shi’a militia battalions, 2013
Kurdish
Democratic Party (KDP) 16 September 1942-1956, see
Democratic Party of Kurdistan
Kurdistan
Front, until 1992
Kurdish
Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê/PKK)
League
of the Revolutionaries (Usbat al-Thairin) militia (Mar. 2020)
League
of the Righteous (Asaib Ahl al-Haq) militia
Mahdi
Army (Militia) (Jaish al Mahdi), June
2003, see Peace Brigades
Kata’ib Hizbollah (KH), 2006
Asaib ahl al-Haq
Mujahideen Shura Council—see
Islamic State of Iraq (ISI)
Organization of Free and Democratic Society for East
Kurdistan (KODAR), 2014
Party of Allah (Hizballah)
Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (Partiya Jiyana Azad
a Kurdistanê/PJAK), 2007
Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan (PUK), June 1975 #
Peace
Brigades (Sarayat al-Salam) , formerly Mahdi Army
(Militia) (Jaish al Mahdi), June 2003,
part of Moqtada Al-Sadr, part of Popular Mobilization Forces
Brigade
313 Samarra
Brigade
314 Samarra
Popular Mobilization Fronts (al-Hashd al Sha’abi/PMF)
Revolution
in Iraq
Supreme
Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI), see
Supreme Council of the Islamic
Reform and Jidah Movement, July 2007,
coalition:
Army of Mujahideen
Islamic Army
Mission Action and Fighting
Supporters of Sunni
Supreme
Command for Jihad and Liberation, October 2004, coalition:
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order (AMNO)
Brigades of Holy War in Mesopotamia
Hamza Army
Hanin Army
Holy War Saraya in Basra
Holy War Saraya in Fallujah
Ibn al-Walid Army
Iraqi Liberation Army
Knight Army for Liberating the
Autonomous Area
Liberation Brigades
Murabitin Army
Mustafa Army
Popular National Front for Iraqi
Liberation
Promised Day Brigade Shi’a militia, 2008, under Moqtada Al-Sadr Movement (Saairun),
dissolution announced
on 19 November 2021.
Peace Brigades Shi’a militia
Risala Army
Sabirin Army
Sahaba Army
Saraya al-Majd for Iraqi Liberation
Saraya Dyala for Holy War and
Liberation
Saraya of Hussein’s al-Taf
Revolution
Saraya of the Liberation of the
South
Saraya of Martyrs
United Command for Mujahideen (Iraq)
Thar
Allah militia, Basra (2003)
Zulfiqar
Forces militia (2020)
Israel
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMB), 2000
Army
of Islam (AOI) (Jaysh al-Islam), 2005
Bloc
of the Faithful (Gush Emunim)
Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
Fighters
for the Freedom of Israel, Stern Gang Lehi (Lohamei Herut Israel) June
1940-January
1949
Flame (Lehava) (2005)
Irgun
National Military Organization in the Land of Israel (Ha'Irgun HaTzva'i HaLe'umi BeEretz
Yisra'el)
[1931-1948]
Israel
Freedom Fighters (LEHI)
Islamic
Resistance Movement (al-Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya/HAMAS)
Kahane
Lives (Kahane Chai), 1990
National
Military Organization (Irgun Tsvai
Leumi), 1931-1948
Palestinian
Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (al-Jihad al-Islami), 1979
Party
of Allah (Hizbullah)
Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), 11 December 1967
Prevention
of Assimilation in the Holy Land (Lehava/LeMeniat Hitbolelut B'eretz
HaKodesh), 2009
Thus
(Kach/Kakh), 1976-1998
Wrath
of God [1968-1979]
The Defense (Haganah), 1920-1948
Jordan
Jordanian
Free Officers Movement [1968]
Jordanian
National Liberation Movement [1968]
Lebanon
‘Abdallah
Azzam Brigades (AAB), 2010, also Syria, Yemen
al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI), 2004
Arab
Commando Cells, 1986
Condemnation
and Migration (at-Takfir wal Hijra), 1999
Conquest
of Islam (Fatah al-Islam/FAI), November 2006
Faction
Armée Révolutionnaire Libanaise (FARL)
Fighting
Revolutionary Cells, 1987
Hizbullah
External Security Organization, see Party of Allah
Imam
As-Sadr Brigades [1968]
Standard Bearers of Imam Musa As-Sadr Organization
[1968]
Islamic
Jihad, see Party of Allah
Islamic
Jihad Khaybar Brigades, 1987
Islamic Party of Liberation (Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami/HT)
(1953)
Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-Sham)
League
of Partisans (‘Asbat al-Ansar/AAA), early 1990s
Lebanese
Armed Revolutionary Faction (LARF) (Faction Armée Revolutionnaire
Libanaise/FARL),
1979
Lebanese
Revolutionary Guard [1968]
Lebanese
Revolutionary Socialist Movement [1968]
Lebanese
Socialist Revolutionary Organization (Shibbu Gang) [1968]
Organization
for the Defense of Free People, 1987
Party of Allah (God) (Hizbullah/Hizb
Allah), 1982/1985 #
Islamic Jihad
Revolutionary Justice Organization (RJO), 1987
Strugglers for Freedom/Organization
of the Oppressed on Earth 1987
Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of
Palestine
Phalangist
Party, 1936 #
Phalangist Security Group
Revolutionary
Arab Youth Organization [1968-1979]
Socialist
Labor Party [1968-1979]
South
Lebanon Army (SLA) militia [Oct. 1977-May 2000]
Oman
Dhofar
Liberation Front (DLF) (Jabhat al-Tahrir al-Dhufar) [1965-Sep. 1968], see
PFLOAG
National
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf (NDFLOAG), see
Popular Front for Liberation of Oman (PFLO)
Peoples
Liberation Army [1968]
Popular
Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf (PFLOAG), see Popular
Front for
Liberation of Oman (PFLO)
Popular
Front for Liberation of Oman (PFLO) (1974-December 1975) dismantled; National
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman
and the Arabian Gulf (NDFLOAG) (1970-1974);
Popular
Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf (PFLOAG) (al-Jabhat al-Sha'abiya al-
Tahrir al-Khalij
al-'Arabi al-Muhtall) (September 1968-December 1971)
Palestine
Abdel
Nasser Movement [1968]
Abu
Nidal Organization (ANO), 1974
Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC)
Arab Revolutionary Council
Arab Revolutionary Brigades (ARB)
Black June Organization (BJO), 1982
Revolutionary Organization of
Socialist Muslims (ROSM)
Action
Organization for the Liberation of Palestine (AOLP) [1968]
Al-Mujahideen
Brigades (AMB), 2005
Arab
Communist Organization (CAO) [1968]
Arab
Liberation Front (ALF), 1969
Arab
Nationalist Movement (ANM)
Arab
Organization of 15 May, 1979
Arab
People (Ash-Shab al-'Arabi) [1968]
Arab
Revolutionary Army-Palestinian Commando [1968]
Arab
Revolutionary Movement [1968]
Arm
of the Arab Revolution [1968]
Army
of Islam (AOI) (Jaysh al-Islam), 2005
Revolutionary
People’s Liberation Party-Front Black March Organization [1968]
Bloc
of the Faithful (Gush Emunim)
Commando
Muhammed Boudia [1968]
Correct
Course of Fatah (AI-Khat as-Sahih Lifatah) [1968]
Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Hawatmeh Faction (DFLP), 1969
Eagles
of the Palestine Revolution (EPR)
Red Eagles
The Thunderbolt (Sai’qa), 1968
Friends
of the Arabs [1968]
Ghassan
Kanafani Commandos [1968]
Group
of the Fallen ‘Abd al Kadir al Husayni [1968]
Islamic
Jihad Movement of Palestine (Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami fi Filastin), 1979,
also Palestine
Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Islamic Resistance Movement (al-Harakat al-Muqawama
al-Islamiya/HAMAS), 1988 #
HAMAS External Security
Organization
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
Brigades, 1991
Mount
Carmel Martyrs [1968]
Movement of the Nobler One (Harakat al-Sabireen)
(2014), backed by Iran
Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem
(MSC) (Shura al-Mujahedin Fi Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis), 2012
National
Organization of Arab Youth [1968]
Nationalist
Youth Group for the Liberation of Palestine [1968]
Organization
of Arab Nationalist Youth for the Liberation of Palestine (ANYOLP) [1968]
Organization
for the Victims of Zionist Occupation [1968]
Organization
of the Armed Arab Struggle (OAAS), 1978
Organization
of Avenging Palestinian Youth [1968]
Organization
of the Struggle Against World Imperialism (SAWIO)
[1968]
Organization
of the Sons of Occupied Territories [1968]
Organization
of the Sons of Palestine [1968]
Organization
of Victims of Occupied Territories [1968]
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (al-Jihad
al-Islami), 1979, see Islamic Jihad Movement of Palestine
Palestine
Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction, see Palestine Islamic Jihad
Palestine
Liberation Front (PLF) (Front for the Liberation of Palestine), 1976
Palestine
Liberation Front-Abu Abbas Faction, see Palestine Liberation Front
Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO), January 1964
Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) [1968]
Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims,
-1974
Palestinian National
Liberation Movement (PNML) (Harakat al-Tahrir
al-Watani al-Filastini/al-Fatah),
1957 # * see al-Fatah
al-Asifa
“Storm” [1965-1965]
Black September Organization (BSO)
[1971-1974]
Force 17 [1970-?]
Hawari Group
Fatah Special Operations
Group
Martyrs of Tal Al
Za’atar
Amn Araissi
Palestine
Rejection Front [1968]
Palestine
Revolutionary Forces [1968]
Palestine
Revolutionary Movement [1968]
Party of Allah (God)
(Hizbullah/Hezbollah/Hizbollah), 1983
Islamic Jihad
Revolutionary Justice Organization (RJO), 1987
Strugglers for Freedom/Organization
of the Oppressed on Earth 1987
Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of
Palestine
Popular
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP) [1968]
Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), 11 December 1967
Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), 1968
Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Command (PFLP-SC), 1978
Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Operations Command (PFLP-SOC),
1979-
1980
Popular
Struggle Front (PSF) (also Palestine Popular Struggle Front/PPSF), 1967
Punishment
Squad (al-Iqab) [1968]
Rejection
Front of Stateless Palestinian Arabs [1968]
Seventh
Suicide Squad [1968]
Sons
of the Occupied Land [1968]
Squad
of the Martyr Patrick Arguello [1968]
Saudi Arabia
al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (al-Qa’ida fi Jazirat
al-‘Arab/AQAP)
Islamic
Movement for Reforms [1968]
Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya
fil-Iraq wa al-
Sham/(Da’esh)
Partisans of God (Ansarallah/al-Houthi, adherents of Shi’a
Zaidi sect)
Union
of the Peoples of the Arabian Peninsula (UPAP) [1968]
Syria
‘Abdallah
Azzam Brigades (AAB), 2010
Ziyad al-Jarrah Battalions (AAB/ZJB)
Al-Baraa
ibn Malik Martyrdom Brigade, 2012
Al-Hashd al-Sha’abi Shi’a
Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)
● Asa'ib
Ahl al-Haq (AAH) League of Righteous
People
(also Khazali Network) (July 2006)
al-Nusrah – see Jabhat al-Nuṣrah
al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI), May 2012
‘Abdallah Azzam Brigades/Ziyad a-Jarrah Battalions
(AAB/ZJB), 2011
Democratic Union Party
(PYD) (2004):
People’s Protection Units
(YPG) (2011-2015)
Women’s
Protection Units (YPJ)
Fatemiyoun Brigade
[Fatimid Banner] (Liwa Fatemiyoun), Nov. 2014, Afghan
Shi’a militia, also Fatemiyoun Division, Hizbollah Afghanistan
Faylaq al-Sham
Free Syrian Army (FSA),
October 2011
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), 2015 (formed from
People’s Protection Units (YPG)
Kurdish People’s Protection Units (Yekineyen Parastina
Gel/YPG)
Burkan al-Furat (Volcano of the Euphrates)
Raqqa Revolutionaries
Shams al-Shamal (Sun of the North) Brigade
Sukrur al-Sham Brigade
Front for the Conquest of
the Levant (Jabhat Fatah al-Sham) [Jan. 2012-28 Jan. 2017]
Front of the Supporters
(Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) (HTS), 28 Jan. 2017
Guardians of Religion
Organization (Tanzim Hurras al-Din) (27 Feb. 2018), al-Qa’ida linked
Haraka Nur ad-Din
az-Zanki, 2011
Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham Al
Islami (Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant), 2011
Harakat Hizbollah al-Nujaba
(HHN) (Movement of the Party of God’s Nobles; from Iraq), 2013
Hay’at al Tahrir al-Sham
(HTS), al-Qa’ida affiliate,2018e
Islamic
Front (al-Jabhat al-Islamiyyah), November
2013
Ahrar al-Sham Brigade, Salafi militants, supported
by Saudi Arabia
Al-Tawhid Brigade (Unity Brigade), July 2012)
Ansar al-Sham (Soldiers of the Levant), September 2012)
Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham al-Islamiyya (Islamic Movement of the
Free Men of
the Levant), 2011 (linked with Front of the Supporters (Jabhat al-Nusra Front) (ANF),
backed by Turkey
Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam), 2011
Islamic Movement of the Free
Men of the Levant,
Dec. 2011 (Harakat Ahrar al-Sham
al-Islamiyya, also Ahrar al-Sham)
Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-
Sham/(Da’esh) 2013,
see Iraq
Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade (YMB),
August 2012
Amaq News Agency
Al Hayat Media Center
Islamic State (IS)/Islamic
Caliphate — Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh), 2004
(Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) declared
allegiance to the Islamic State (IS), it was reported on
4 October 2014. Boko Haram pledged
allegiance to Islamic State (IS) according to an unverified
BH Twitter audio message reported on 8 March
2015. Partisans of Jerusalem (Ansar Beit al-
Maqdis), July 2013, announced its allegiance
to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on
10 November 2014.)
Jabha al-Shamiyah
Jabhat Fatah al-Sham [aka
Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, Fatah al-Sham Front, Conquest of the Levant Front, Front for the Conquest/Liberation of
the Levant/Syria/JF, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham/HTS] 28 July 2016, formerly Jabhat al-Nuṣrah li-Ahli ash-Sham
(JN/JaN) (The Support Front for the People of Levant) (JN/JaN)
Front of the Supporters (Jabhat al-Nusra Front) (ANF), 2012
Jaish al-Fatah (JaF) (Army
of Conquest) alliance (supported by Qatar and Saudi Arabia)
Jabhat al-Nusra Front (ANF), 2011
al-Qa’ida Syrian branch
Jaish al-Fustat
Jaish
al-Islam, Sukrur al-Sham Brigade, Salafi militants, supported by Saudi Arabia
Kurdish Islamic Front
Liwa al-Tawhid (Unity Brigade), 2012
Liwa al-Haqq
Jabhat
al-Nuṣrah li-ahl ash-Sham min Mujahedi al-Sham fi Sahat al-Jihad/JN/JaN), al-Nusrah Front
(ANF), 2012 (The Support Front for the People
of Levant) (JN/JaN), renamed Jabhat Fath al-
Sham (Front for the Conquest of the Levant)
(JF), 28 July 2016
Jaish al-Muhajireen
wal-Ansar (JMA) (Army of Emigrants and Supporters) (formerly Kata’ib al-
Muhajireen Brigade), 2012
Jund al-Aqsa (Soldiers of
al-Aqsa) (JAA), 2012 (formerly part of the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), acting
independently but remains openly aligned with ANF.)
Kata’ib Hizbollah (KH)
militia, supported by Iran
Katibat
al-Imam al-Bukhari (KIB), Uzbek force
Kateeba
al-Kawthar (KaK) (formerly Kata’ib al-Muhajireen (KaM)
Kata’ib Khattab Al-Shishani, Caucasus force, Aug.
2020
Kata’ib
Sayyid al-Shuhada (Sayyids of Martyrs), Iraqi Shi’a militia battalions, 2013
Khorasan
Group, July 2014?
Kurdish
Supreme Committee
People’s Protection Units
(YPG) (armed wing of Democratic Union Party) (PYD), 2004, Syrian Kurdish
anti-IS militia
Self-Defense Forces (HXP)
Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), Syrian Kurdish anti-IS
militia
Levant Front, Dec. 2014
Liwa Thuwar al-Raaqa
(al-Raqqa Revolutionist Brigade)
National Coalition of
Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, November 2012
Nour al-Din al-Zinki, 2019
Organization for the
Liberation of the Levant (Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham/HTS), 2011
Party of Allah (Hizbollah),
2013
People’s Protection Units
(YPG)
Seljuk Brigade
Hammam Turkmen Martyrs Brigade
Support
Front, see Jabhat al-Nusra
Supreme
Council of the Syrian Revolution (SCSR), 2011
Suquour
al-Sham, 2019
Syriac
Military Council (MFS)
Syrian
Democratic Forces (SDF), 10 October 2015
[Syrian-Kurdish]
Self-Defense Forces (HXP)
Syrian Liberation Front (Jabhat Tahrir Suriya/JTS) (19 Feb. 2018)
● Islamic
Movement of the Free Men of the Levant (Harakat
Ahrar ash-Sham al-
Islamiyya) (aka Ahrar ash-Sham)
(2011)
● Nur al-Din
al-Zenki Movement (aka Nureddine al-Zinki) (Ḥaraka
Nur ad-Din az-Zanki)
(2011)
Syrian
Revolutionary Command Council (SRCC) (Majlis Qiyādat ath-Thawra as-Sūriyya) (3 Aug. 2014-2015) CIA
support ended in July 2017
Syrian
Revolution General Commission (SRGC), 2011
Syrian
National Council (SNC), 23 August 2011
Victory
Front for the People of the Levant by the Mujahideen of the Levant on the
Fields of Jihad
(Jabhat
an-Nusrah li-ahli ash-Sham min Mujahideen ash-Sham fi Sahar al-Jihad) [2012-2013]
Women’s
Protection Units (YPJ)
YPG
International Battalion
Ziyad
al-Jarrah Battalions (ZJB), 2010
Local
units
Desert Hawks Brigade
Harun al-Rashid Brigade
Jabhat al-Akrad
Jazeera Knights Brigade
Khabour Guards
Shahba Forces
Umanaa al-Raqqa Brigade
Turkey
28
May Armenian Organization [1968]
Acilciler
[1968]
Armenian
Liberation Army [1968]
Armenian
Revolutionary Army, see Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG)
Avengers
of the Armenian Genocide [1968]
Emergency
Fighters of the Islamic Revolution (Islam Devriminin Acil Mucahitleri) (IDAM)
Federation
of Turkish Revolutionary Youth (DEV GENC)
Front
for the Liberation of Armenia [1968]
Great
Eastern Islamic Raiders’ Front (İslami
Büyükdoğu Akıncılar Cephesi/İBDA-C), 1970
Great
Islamic Eastern Warriors Front (IBDA-C)
Islamic
Liberation Party Front (IKP-C)
Justice
Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG), 1975
Justice
of Armenian Genocide [1968]
Kurdish
People’s Liberation Army (Kurt Halk Kurtuluş Ordusu) (KHKO)
Kurdish Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên
Kurdistanê/PKK), 27 November 1978
Kurdistan Freedom Falcons
(Teyrêbazên Azadiya Kurdistan/TAK),
2005
National Liberation Front of Kurdistan (Eniya Rizgariya Netewa Kurdistan/ERNK) (PKK
political wing)
People’s Defense Forces (Hêzên
Parastina Gêl/HPG), 2002, formerly People’s Liberation
Army of Kurdistan (Arteşa Rizgariya Gelê Kurdistan/ARGK) [-2002]
Kurdistan
National Liberation Fighters (KNLF) (Kurdistan Ulusal Kurtuluşculari/KUK)
Kurdistan
Vanguard Workers Party (Kurdistan Oncu Isci Partisi/KOIP)
Marxist-Leninist
Armed Propaganda Unit (MLAPU), 1979
Mayir
Cayan Suicide Group [1968]
National
Liberation of Kurdistan (Kurdistan Ulusal Kurtuluş/KUK)
New
Armenian Resistance Group [1968]
Party
of Allah (Hezbollah/Hizballah), late 1980s (Not connected to
Hizballah/Hizbollah of Lebanon)
Patriotic
Revolutionary Youth Movement (Yurtsever
Devrimci Gençlik Hareket/YDG-H), 2013
People’s Liberation (HK)
People’s United Revolutionary Movement (Halkların Birleşik Devrim
Hareketi/HBDH), 12 March 2016
Communist Labor Party of Turkey/Leninist (Türkiye
Komünist Emek Partisi/Leninist/
(TKEP/L), 1 September 1990
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (Türkiye
Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist/
(TKP/ML), 24 April 1972
Coordination of Revolutionary Proletarians (PDK)
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê/PKK), 27 November 1978
Maoist Communist Party (Maoist Komünist Partisi) (MKP), 18 April 1994, 15 September
2002
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (Marksist-Leninist Komünist Partisi)
(MLKLP), 10
September 1994
People’s Liberation Party-Front of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist Armed
Propaganda Union
(Marksist Leninist Silahlı
Propaganda Birliği/(THKP-C/MLSPB), 1975
Revolutionary Communard Party (DKP)
Revolutionary Communist Party (Devrimci Komünist
Partisi)/DKP)
Revolutionary Communist Union of Turkey (TİKB)
Revolutionary
Headquarters (Devrimci Karargâh/DK), Aug. 2008 [aka Revolutionary Command]
Revolutionary
Communist Party of Turkey (Türkiye
Devrimci Komünist Partisi/TDKP), 1980
Revolutionary Headquarters, Aug.
2008 [aka Revolutionary Command]
Revolutionary
Left (Devcrimci Sol, also Dev Sol), 1978-1994, see Revolutionary People’s
Liberation
Party-Front
Revolutionary
People’s Liberation Party-Front (Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş
Partisi-Cephisi/DHKP/C),
1994
Revolutionary
Path (Devcrimci Yol, also Dev Yol)
Slave
Kortin Yanikiyan Group [1968]
Sol
Revolutionary Left (Front Devrimci Sol/Dev), see
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party
Turkish
Islamic Fighters Army (Tűrkiye Islam Kurtuluş Mucahitleri
Ordusu/TIMO)
Turkish
Fighters of the Universal Islamic War of Liberation (EIK-TM)
Turkish
Islamic Liberation Army (IKO)
Turkish
Islamic Liberation Front (TIK-C)
Turkish
Islamic Liberation Union (TIKB)
Turkish
People’s Liberation Army (TPLA) [1968]
Turkish
People’s Liberation Party/Front (TPLP/F) (Tűrkiye Halk Kurtuluş Parti
Cephesi/THKP-C)
[1968] Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda
Unit (Marksist-Leninist Silahli Propaganda Birligi/
MLSPB)
People’s Revolutionary Pioneers (Halkin Devrimci Onculari/HDO)
Turkish
People’s Liberation Party Front-Liberation (Tűrk Halk Kurtuluş Parti
Cephesi-Kurtuluş/
THKPC-K)
Turkish
Revolutionaries [1968]
Turkish
Revolutionary Youth Federation [1968]
Turkish
Shari’a Revenge Commandos (TSIK)
Turkish
Workers-Peasants Liberation Army (Tűrkiye Isci Koylu Kurtukluş Ordusu/(TIKKO)
Union
of Kurdistan Societies (Koma Civakên Kurdistan) (KCK), 2005, formerly Society
of the
Kurdistan Confederation (Koma Komalên
Kurdistan) (KKK) [2005-2005], Kurdistan People’s
Congress (Kongra Gelê Kurdistan/KGK),
[October 2003-2005], Democratic Freedom Congress of
Kurdistan (Kongreya Azadiya Demokratika
Kurdistan) (KADEK), [October 2002-October 2003]
Universal
Brotherhood Front-Shari’a Revenge Squad (EKC-SIM)
World
Shari’a Liberation Army (Dunya Seriat Kurtuluş Ordusu/DKSO)
Yanikian
Commandos [1968]
Yemen
Ansar
al-Shari’a (AAS-T) (Soldiers of the Shari’a), allegiance to al-Qa’ida
al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (Al-Qa’ida fi Jazirat al-'Arab/AQAP), January 2009 – see Province of Yemen
Partisans of Islamic Law (Ansar
al-Shar’ia) (AAS)
al-Qa’ida in Yemen (AQY), 1996-2009, see al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula
Believing
Youth (BY) (al-Shabāb
al-Mū‘min), 1992, Shi’ite Houthi
Eagles
of National Unity [1968]
Front
for the Liberation of Occupied Yemen (FLOSY) [1962-1967]
Hadramawt
National Council (HNC)
Houthi
Movement, formed in 2004 to obtain greater autonomy for Sa’dah Province
Islah Forces militia (2014)
of the Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Yemeni Islah Party/YIP)
Islamic Army of Aden (IAA), mid-1998
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (AAIA), 1993
Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) (Da’esh) (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-
Sham/(Da’esh) (IS)
2013
Khalid
bin Al-Walid Army (formerly Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, formed 2012), allegiance
to ISIL)
National
Liberation Front in South Arabia, 1962
National
Supreme Council for Liberating the South
Partisans of God
(Ansarallah) al-Houthi (al-Ḥūthiyyūn) adherents
of Shi’a Zaidi
sect (Zaydi tribe), 1962, Shi’ites (2004 armed)
Province
of Yemen (Wilayat al-Yemen), designation used by al-Qa’ida in the Arabian
Peninsula (AQAP) since 2015
Partisans of Islamic Law (Ansar
al-Shar’ia) (AAS)
Sons
of Hadramawt, 2015
Southern
Mobility Movement (SMM)
Southern
Movement (Al-Harakat al-Janubiyya), 2007
Supreme
Council for the Liberation of Southern Yemen
Supreme
Council of Revolutionary Peaceful Movement for Liberation and Independence of
South (2014)
Southern
Transitional Council (STC), supported by United Arab Emirates (UAE), 4 April
2017
Security
Belt Forces (SBF)
Unification
Battalions, 2005
Yemeni
Islamic Jihad (YIJ), 2008, merged into YSB
al-Tawheed
battalions
Yemeni
Soldiers’ Brigades (YSB), 2007
OCEANIA
Papua New Guinea—Bougainville Island
Bougainville
Revolutionary Army (BRA), 1988, no warfare since 2001
Free Papua Movement (OPM) in
Papua and West Papua (Papua Barat)
West Papua National
Liberation Army (Tentara Pembebasan Nasional/TPN)
United
Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) (Dec. 2014)
Solomon Islands—Guadalcanal Island
Guadalcanal
Liberation Front (GLF)
Isatabu
Freedom Movement
Malaita
Eagle Force (MEF) [1999-2000]
Notes
A
number of listed organizations no longer exist but accurate information of
dissolution is lacking.
Date of formation or earliest reported activity
[date-date] Dissolved,
inactive
*Also functioning as political movement or party.
# Engaged in armed action
before assuming its current role as a political movement or party.
Sources
IO
database, ABC Radio Australia, Aberfoyle International Security (AIS), African Union (AU), AFP
Agence France Presse, Al Jazeera, allAfrica.com, Amnesty International (AI),
ANSA Agenzia Nazionale Stampa
Associata, AP Associated Press, BBC News
(British Broadcasting Corporation), Brisbane Times, Central Television
(Pyongyang), CNN, Dawn, Deutsche Welle (dw), Die
Presse, El País, Frankfurter Rundschau, Freedom
House, New York NY/Washington DC, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Hürriyet Daily News, informed COMMENT, International
Crisis Group (ICG), International
Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), International Maritime
Bureau (IMB), IRIN
News, Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), KAZINFORM, KCNA Korean Central
News Agency (North Korea), Kyodo News, Le Monde, Libération, Middle East online, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), ORF Österreichischer
Rundfunk, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Post-Courier,
PTI Press Trust of India, Radio France Internationale (RFI), Radio Free Asia
(RFA), Radio New Zealand International (RNZI), Reuters, RIA Novosti, SIPRI
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Southern Poverty
Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama, Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), TASS, Terrorism
Monitor, Washington DC, Terrorism
Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC), The Age, The Fund for Peace, The
Indian Express, The Japan Times, The Local, Stockholm, The New York
Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The
Times of India, The Washington Post, United Nations (UN), US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), US Department of Defense, US Department of State, US National
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Health Organization (WHO), Xinhua News Agency, Yeni Şafak.
Completion: Includes information
dated 10 April 2022 or earlier. Completed in April 2022.
(Replacing World: Militant and
Revolutionary Organizations, Global Survey, Vol. 52, No. 525, January 2022,
47 pp.)
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