ISSN: 1075-4644
GLOBAL SURVEY Vol. 51 No. 6O/518 March 2021
WORLD:
MILITANT AND REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS
ABBREVIATIONS
8th Updated Edition
3R Return Reclamation
Rehabilitation 3R Group CAR
A2R Alliance
for Revival and Rebuilding CAR
AA Arakan Army Burma
AAA Apostolic Anti-Communist
Alliance Spain
AAA Argentine Anti-Communist
Alliance Argentina
AAA ‘Asbat
al-Ansar Lebanon
AAA Independence-Liberation-Resistance Greece
AAB ‘Abdallah Azzam
Brigades (AAB) Lebanon
AAB ‘Abdallah Azzam
Brigades (AAB) Syria
AAB al-Ashtar
Brigades Bahrain
AAD Defenders of Faith Mali
AAD Ansar al-Dine Mali
AAD-S Defenders of Faith South Mali
AAD-S Ansar
al-Dine Sud Mali
AAS-T Ansar
al-Shari’a Yemen
AAS-T Soldiers of the Shari’a Yemen
AAH League of Righteous People Iraq
AAH Asa’ib
Ahl al-Haq Iraq
AAH League of Righteous People Syria
AAH Asa’ib
Ahl al-Haq Syria
AAI Ansar al-Islam Iraq
AAIA Aden-Abyan
Islamic Army Yemen
AAMB al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Israel
AAMB al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Palestine
AAP Peruvian Anti-Communist
Alliance Peru
AAS Partisans of Islamic Law Yemen
AAS Ansar al-Shar’ia Yemen
AASB Abdullah
Azzam Shaheed Brigade Pakistan
AAS-B Ansar al-Shari’a in
Benghazi Libya
AAS-D Ansar al-Shari’a in Darnah/Derna Libya
AAS-T Ansar al-Shari’a in Tunesia Tunesia
ABSDF All Burma Student Democratic Front Burma
ABB Alex Boncayao
Brigade Philippines
ABT Ansarullah
Bangla Team Bangladesh
ACA Armed Peasant Association Paraguay
AÇTOSH
Army for the Liberation of the
Albanian Occupied
Territories Kosovo
AD Accion
Directe France
ADC Democratic Alliance of 23 May
for Change Mali
ADF Allied Democratic Forces Congo
(DR)
ADF Allied Democratic Forces Uganda
ADF-NALU Allied Democratic Forces-National Army for
the
Liberation of Uganda Congo (DR)
ADF-NALU Allied Democratic Forces-National Army for
the
Liberation of Uganda Uganda
AFDL Alliance of Democratic Forces for
the Liberation
of Congo-Zaire Congo
(DR)
AFDL Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération
du Congo-Zaire Congo
(DR)
AGC Autodefensas Gaitanistas de
Colombia Colombia
AGC Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces Colombia
AGUDM Arbengoch
Ginbot 7 Unity and Democratic Movement Ethiopia
AI Ansar al-Islam Iraq
AIAA Al-Ittihad
al-Islami Somalia
AIIB Anti-Imperialist International
Brigade Japan
AIS Armée
Islamique du Salut Algeria
AJ Islamic Jihad Egypt
AJ al-Jihad [al-Islami] Egypt
AKSH Armata Kombëtare Shqiptare Macedonia
ALAF Arab Libyan Armed Forces (ALAF) Libya
ALF Arab Liberation Front Palestine
ALIR Army for the Liberation of
Rwanda Rwanda
ALIR Armée pour la Libération du Rwanda Rwanda
ALN Action for National Liberation Brazil
ALP Arakan Liberation Party Burma
AMB al-Mulathamun
Battalion, see GSIM/JNIM Mali
AMLA Achik Matgrik Liberation Army India
AMNO Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi
Order Egypt
AN Autonome
Nationalisten Germany
ANA Albanian National Army Kosovo
ANC African National Congress South
Africa
ANF Jabhat al-Nusra Front Kyrgyzstan
ANF Jabhat al-Nusra Front Syria
ANLA Adivasi National Liberation Army India
ANM Azorean Nationalist Movement Portugal-Azores
ANM Arab Nationalist Movement Palestine
ANO Abu Nidal
Organization Palestine
ANR National
Alliance of Resistance Chad
ANSIPRJ National Alliance for the Protection of
Peul Identity and
Restoration of Justice Mali
ANSIPRJ Alliance nationale pour la sauvegarde
de l’idendité Peule
et
la restauration de la justice Mali
ANVC Achik
National Volunteers Council India
ANYOLP Organization of Arab Nationalist Youth
for the
Liberation of Palestine Palestine
AOLP Action Organization for the
Liberation of Palestine Palestine
AOI Army of Islam Israel
AOI Army of Islam Palestine
APCLS Alliance of Patriots for a Free and
Sovereign Congo Congo (DR)
APLC Cameroonian People’s Liberation Army Cameroon
APOZA People’s Army of the Oppressed in
Zaire Congo
(DR)
APRD People’s Army for the Restoration
of the Republic
and Democracy CAR
APRD Armée Populaire pour la Restoration de la République
et la Démocratie CAR
APRM Allied
Popular
Resistance Movement, see PRM Egypt
AQ al-Qa’ida International
AQAP al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula
International
AQAP al-Qa’ida fi Jazirat al-‘Arab International
AQAP al-Qa’ida
fi Jazirat al-‘Arab Saudi
Arabia
AQAP al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula Saudi
Arabia
AQAP al-Qa’ida fi Jazirat al-‘Arab Yemen
AQAP al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula Saudi
Arabia
AQAP Province of Yemen Yemen
AQAP Wilayat al-Yemen Yemen
AQI al-Qa’ida in Iraq Iraq
AQI al-Qa’ida in Iraq Lebanon
AQIM al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb International
AQIM al-Qa’ida fi bilad al-Maghrib
al-islami International
AQIM al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb Algeria
AQIM al-Qa’ida fi bilad al-Maghrib
al-islami Algeria
AQIM al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb Libya
AQIM al-Qa’ida fi bilad al-Maghrib
al-islami Libya
AQIM al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb Mali
AQIM al-Qa’ida fi bilad
al-Maghrib al-islami Mali
AQIM al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb Tunesia
AQIM al-Qa’ida fi bilad
al-Maghrib al-islami Tunesia
AQIS al-Qa’ida in Indian Subcontinent India
AQKB al-Qa’ida
Kurdish Battalions International
AQKB al-Qa’ida Kurdish Battalions Iraq
AQY al-Qa’ida in Yemen Yemen
ARB Arab Revolutionary Brigades Palestine
ARFWS Alliance of Revolutionary Forces in
West Sudan Sudan
ARGK People’s Liberation Army of Kurdistan Turkey
ARGK Arteşa Rizgariya Gelê Kurdistan Turkey
ARIF Arakan-Rohinga Islamic Front Burma
ARI
PGT/FAR Revolutionary Armed Forces Guatemala
ARK Army of the Republic of Kosovo Kosovo
ARLN Popular Front for the Liberation
of Northern Niger Niger
ARLN Armée Révolutionnaire pour la Libération du Niger Nord Niger
ARPCT Alliance for the Restoration of
Peace and Counter-Terrorism Somalia
ARS-A Alliance
for the Re-Liberation of Somalia Somalia
ARSA Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army Burma
ARSC Ajdabiya
Revolutionaries Shura Council Libya
AS Al-Shaba’ab, see HSM Somalia
AS Party of Youth, see HSM Somalia
AS Harakat al-Shaba’ab al-Mujahedeen,
see HSM Somalia
ASALA Armenian Secret Army for the
Liberation of Armenia Armenia
ASG Abu Sayyaf Group Philippines
ASS Alliance for the Salvation of the Sahel Mali
ASWJ Ahlu Sunnah wa’l
Jama’at Mozambique
ASWJ Followers of Ahlu
Sunnah wa’l Jama’at Pakistan
ASWJ Ahlu Sunnah wa’l
Jama’at Pakistan
ASWJ Followers of Ahlu
Sunnah wa’l Jama’at Mozambique
ASWJ Ahlu Sunnah wa’l
Jama’at Mozambique
ASWJ Followers of Ahlu
Sunnah wa’l Jama’at Somalia
ASWJ Ahlu Sunnah wa’l
Jama’at Somalia
ATE Anti-ETA Terrorism Spain
ATNMC Niger
Mali Tuareg Alliance for Change Mali
ATNMC Alliance Touareg Niger-Mali pour le
Changement Mali
ATNMC Northern Mali Tuareg Alliance for Change Mali
ATNMC Alliance
Touareg Nord Mali pour le Changement Mali
ATTF All-Tripura Tiger Force India
AUC Autodefensas Unidas
de Colombia Colombia
AUM Aum Shinrikyo Aum Japan
AVC Alfaro
Vive, Carajo! Ecuador
BACRIM Emergent Criminal Gangs Colombia
BDB Benghazi Defense Brigades Libya
BH Boko Haram Cameroon
BH Boko Haram Chad
BH
Jama’atu
ahlus sunnah
lid da’awati wal jihad Chad
BH Boko Haram Nigeria
BH
Jama’atu
ahlus sunnah
lid da’awati wal jihad Nigeria
BIFF Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom
Fighters Philippines
BIFM Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom
Movement Philippines
BJO Black June Organization Palestine
BK Babbar
Khalsa India
BKI Babbar
Khalsa International India
BLA Baluchistan Liberation Army Pakistan
BLF Baloch Liberation Front Pakistan
BLT Bodo Liberation Tigers Bangladesh
BLT Bodo Liberation Tigers Bhutan
BLT Bodo Liberation Tigers India
BLUF Baloch Liberation United Front Pakistan
BMDO Baloch Musalla
Difa Organisation Pakistan
BMG Baader-Meinhof
Gruppe Germany
BNPP Barisan
Nasional Pembebasan Patani Thailand
BPR Popular Revolutionary Bloc El
Salvador
BR Brigate
Rosse Italy
BRA Balochistan Republican Army Pakistan
BRA Bougainville Revolutionary Army Papua
New Guinea
BRAS Baloch Raji Ajoi Sangar Pakistan
BRN Barisan
Revolusi Nasional Thailand
BRN-C National Revolutionary
Front-Coordinate Thailand
BR/PCC Brigate
Rossi/Partito Comunista Combattente Italy
BRSC Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura
Council Libya
BSO Black September Organization Palestine
BTF Bhutan Tiger Force Bhutan
BTFK Bhindranwala
Tiger Force of Khalistan India
BY Believing
Youth Yemen
CALAI Comite Argentino de Lucha Anti-Imperialista Argentina
CAM Mapuche/Coordinadora
Arauco Malleco Chile
CAN Chin National Army Burma
CAO Arab Communist Organization Palestine
CAR-
Palmares Armed Revolutionary Vanguard-Palmares Brazil
CCC Cellules
Communistes Combattantes Belgium
CCMSR Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic CAR
CCMSR Conseil
de Commandement Militaire pour le Salut de la
République CAR
CERF Frente Clara Elizabeth Ramirez El
Salvador
CFF Cambodian Freedom Fighters Cambodia
CIRA Continuity Irish Republican Army UK-NI
CJA Congress for Justice in Azawad Mali
CJA Congrès
pour la justice dans l‘Azawad Mali
CJNG Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación Mexico
CJNG Jalisco Cartel New Generation Mexico
CLF Congolese Liberation Front Congo
(DR)
CMA Coordination
of Azawad Movements Mali
CMA Coordination
des mouvements de l’Azawad Mali
CMFPR Coordination
des mouvements et fronts patriotiques
de résistance Mali
CM-SAF Coordination of Movements and Patriotic Fronts Resistance Mali
CNDP National Congress for the Defense
of the People Congo (DR)
CNDP Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple Congo
(DR)
CNF Chin National Front Burma
CNM Cuban Nationalist Movement Cuba
CNPZ Nestor Paz Zamora Commission Bolivia
CNT Chadian National Concord Chad
CNT Concorde Nationale du Tchad Chad
CODECO Cooperative for Development of Congo Congo (DR)
COREMO Mozambique Revolutionary Council Mozambique
CORU Coordination of United
Revolutionary Organizations Cuba
CPA Coalition
for the People of Azawad Mali
CPA Coalition
pour le peuple de l’Azawad Mali
CPA Coordination
for the People of Azawad Mali
CPB-M-L-M Communist Party of Bhutan
(Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) Bhutan
CPI-M Communist Party of India-Maoist India
CPI-M Communist Party of India-Marxist India
CPI-ML Communist Party of
India-Marxist-Leninist India
CPN-M Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Nepal
CPJP Convention
of Patriots for Justice and Peace
cAR
CPJP Convention
des Patriots pour la Justice et la Paix CAR
CPP Communist Party of the
Philippines Philippines
CPSK Patriotic Convention for Saving
the Country CAR
CRA Coordination of Armed Resistance
Niger
CRA Coordination de la Résistance Armée Niger
CRI Ichkeria
Chechen Republic Russia-Chechnya
CRI Chechen Republic Ichkeria Russia-Chechnya
Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the
Levant, see ISIL
Da’esh Dawlat
al-Islāmiyya fī
al-Irāq wa
s-Shām, see ISIL
DEV GENC Federation of Turkish Revolutionary Youth Turkey
DFLP Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Israel
DFLP Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Palestine
DHD Dima Halong
Daogah India
DHD-J Dima Halong
Daogah Jewel Garlossa
faction India
DHKP/C Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephisi Turkey
DHKP/C Revolutionary People’s Liberation
Party-Front Turkey
DITG Dawlah Islamiyah Torayfie Group Philippines
DJEM Democratic Justice and Equality
Movement Sudan
DK Revolutionary Headquarters Turkey
DK Devrimci Karargâh Turkey
DKP Revolutionary Communard Party Turkey
DKP Devrimci Komünist Partisi Turkey
DKSO Dunya Seriat Kurtuluş Ordusu Turkey
DKBA Democratic Karen Buddhist Army Burma
DLF Jabhat
al-Tahrir al-Dhufar Oman
DLF Dhofar
Liberation Front Oman
DFLP Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine Palestine
DJEM Democratic Justice and Equality
Movement Sudan
DKBA Kaloh Htoo Baw Armed Group Burma
DMSC Derna Revolutionaries Shura Council Libya
DPF Derna Protection Forces Libya
DPT Democratic Party of Tajikistan Tajikistan
DPK Democratic Party of Kurdistan Iraq
DRFF Democratic Revolutionary Forces
Front Sudan
E3 France, Germany and the
United Kingdom International
EA Revolutionary Struggle Greece
EA Epanastatikos Aghonas Greece
EAN Greek Anti-Dictatorial Youth Greece
EEAG Ethnic Albanian Armed Group Macedonia
EGP Guerrilla Army of the Poor Guatemala
EGTK Tupac Katari
Guerrilla Army Peru
EKC-SIM Universal Brotherhood Front-Shari’a
Revenge Squad Turkey
ELA Revolutionary Cells and Revolutionary
People’s
Struggle Greece
ELA Epanastatikos
Laikos Agonas Greece
ELF Eritrean Liberation Front Eritrea
EIK-TM Turkish Fighters of the Universal
Islamic War of Liberation Turkey
ELN Ejército de Liberación Nacional Bolivia
ELN Ejército de Liberación Nacional Colombia
EOKA-B National Organization of Cypriot Fighters
Enosis Movement Cyprus
EPB Ejercito Popular de Borico USA-Puerto
Rico
EPL Ejército Popular de Liberación Colombia
EPLF Eritrean People’s Liberation
Front Eritrea
EPP Ejercito
del Pueblo Paraguayo Paraguay
EPR Eagles of the Palestine
Revolution Palestine
ERCA Red Army for the Liberation of
Catalonia Spain
ERNK National Liberation Front of
Kurdistan Turkey
ERNK Eniya Rizgariya Netewa Kurdistan Turkey
ERP Ejército
Revolucionario Popular Argentina
ERP Ejército
Revolucionario Popular El Salvador
ERP Ejército
Revolucionario Popular Mexico
ETA Basque Fatherland and Liberty Spain
ETA Euzkadi
Ta Askatasuna Spain
ETA-M Basque Fatherland and Freedom
Military Front Spain
ETA-PM Basque Fatherland and Freedom Political-Military
Front Spain
ETIM East Turkestan Islamic Movement China-Xinjiang
EZLN Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional Mexico
FAC Armed Forces of Cabinda Angola
FAI Fatah al-Islam Lebanon
FAI Informal Anarchist Federation Germany
FAI Federazione
Anarchia Informale Germany
FAI Informal Anarchist Federation Italy
FAI Federazione
Anarchia Informale Italy
FAL Armed Forces of Liberation El
Salvador
FALANTIL
East Timor National Liberation
Forces Timor
FALANTIL
East Timor National Liberation
Forces Timor
FAP Armed Popular Front Uruguay
FAPU United Popular Action Front El
Salvador
FAR Former Armed Forces Rwanda
FAR Revolutionary Armed Forces Argentina
FARB Brazilian Revolutionary Action
Front Brazil
FARC Front
Armé Révolutionnaire Corse France
FARC-EP Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army Colombia
FARC-EP Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército
del
Pueblo Colombia
FARS Revolutionary Armed Forces of the
Sahara Niger
FARS Forces Armées
Révolutionnaires de la Sahara Niger
FARL Faction Armée
Revolutionnaire Libanaise Lebanon
FARN Armed Forces of National
Resistance El
Salvador
FAS Frente Americo
Silva Venezuela
Fatah Palestinian National Liberation
Movement Palestine
Fatah Harakat al-Tahrir at-Watani
al-Filastini Palestine
FDLR Democratic Forces for the
Liberation of Rwanda Congo
(DR)
FDLR Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du
Rwanda Congo (DR)
FDLR Democratic Forces for the
Liberation of Rwanda Rwanda
FDLR Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du
Rwanda Rwanda
FDPC Democratic
Front for the Central African People CAR
FDPC Front Démocratique du
Peuple Centrafricain CAR
FDR Democratic
Renewal Front Niger
FDR Front
Démocratique pour la Renouvellement Niger
FEAR Forever Enduring Always Ready USA
FECAT Forum for Exiled Chadians in Central
Africa, see FPIR Chad
FFR Front of Fighters for
Rectification Niger
FFR Front des Forces de Redressement Niger
FIF Falah-i-Insaniat
Foundation Pakistan
FIN National Integration Front Cuba
FIR International Revolutionary Front Italy
FIS Front
Islamique du Salut Algeria
FLA Azorean Liberation Front Portugal-Azores
FLAA Front for the Liberation of Aïr and Azouad Niger
FLAA Front
de Libération de l’Aïr et l’Azouad Niger
FLB-ARB Front Libération de la
Bretagne-Armée Republicain Breton France
FLC Front de la Libération Congolaise Congo
(DR)
FLCS Front for the Liberation of the
Somali Coast Somalia
FLCS Front for the Liberation of
the Somali Coast Djibouti
FLEC Front for the Liberation of
the Cabinda Enclave Angola
FLEC Frente de Libertação
do Enclave de Cabinda Angola
FLN Liberation Forces of Northern
Mali Mali
FNL Forces des liberation du Nord
du Mali Mali
FLNC
Cuban National Liberation
Front Cuba
FLNC Front
de Libération Nationale de la Corse France
FLNC Front
de Libération Nationale de la Corse du 5 mai 1996 France
FLNKS Front de
Libération Nationale Kanak Socialiste France-New Cal.
FLOSY Front for the Liberation of Occupied
Yemen Yemen
FLQ Front de Libération du Québec Canada
FLT Front for the Liberation of Tamoust Niger
FLT Front pour
la Libération de Tamoust Niger
FLWS Front for the Liberation of
Western Somalia Somalia
FMLN Frente Farabundo Martí para la
Liberación Nacional El Salvador
FMNLF Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front El Salvador
FNI Nationalist Integrationist Front Congo (DR)
FNI Front
de Nationalistes et Intégrationnistes Congo
(DR)
FNL National Liberation Forces Burundi
FNL Forces
Nationales de la Libération Burundi
FNT Chadian National Front Chad
FNT Front
National du Tchad Chad
FOCA Abacunguzi Combat Force Congo
(DR)
FOCA Force Combattante Abacunguzi Congo
(DR)
FOCA Abacunguzi Combat Force Rwanda
FOCA Force Combattante Abacunguzi Rwanda
FOREBU Republican Forces of
Burundi Burundi
FOREBU Les Forces Republicaines
du Burundi Burundi
FP-25 Forces Populares
25 de Abril Portugal
FPC Fronte patriotu corsu France
FPI Islamic Defenders Front Indonesia
FPIC Patriotic
and Integrationist Front of Congo Congo (DR)
FPIR Progressive
Force for Independence and Rebirth Chad
FPIR Forces
Progressistes pour l’Independence et
la Renaissance Chad
FPJC Popular
Front for Justice in Congo Congo
(DR)
FPL Farabundo
Marti Popular Liberation Forces El
Salvador
FPLC Front for the Liberation of Congo Congo
(DR)
FPLN Frente Popular de Liberación Nacional Colombia
FPM Morazanist Patriotic Front Honduras
FPMR Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez Chile
FPN Niger
Patriotic Front Niger
FPN Front
Patriotique Nigérien Niger
FPR Popular Front for Recovery CAR
FPR Front populaire pour le redressement CAR
FPR Popular Front for Recovery Chad
FPR Front populaire pour le redressement Chad
FPRC Popular Front for the Central African
Renaissance CAR
FPRC Front Populaire pour la
Renaissance de Centrafrique CHAD
FPR-LZ Fuerzas Populares Revolucionarias-Lorenzo Zelaya Honduras
FRAP People's Revolutionary Armed
Forces Mexico
FRAP Popular Revolutionary Armed Front Spain
FRAPH Front Revolutionnaire
pour l’Avancement et le
Progrès d’Haïti Haiti
FRC Fatah Revolutionary Council Palestine
FRD Restoration of Democracy Front Burundi
FRD Front
de Restauration de la Démocratie Burundi
FRD-A Forces for the Restoration
of Democracy-Abanyagihugu Burundi
FRELIMO Mozambique
Liberation Front Mozambique
FRELIMO Frente de Libertação de Moçambique Mozambique
FRETILIN Frente Revolucionário
Do Timor Leste Independente Timor
FROLINAT Chad
National Liberation Front Chad
FROLINAT Front
de Libération National Tchadien Chad
FRPI Front
for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri Congo
(DR)
FRPI Forces de Résistance Patriotique d’Ituri Congo (DR)
FRPL Lautaro
Popular Rebel Forces Chile
FRUD Front
for the Restoration of Unity
and Democracy Djibouti
FRUD Front
pour la Restauration de l’Unité et la Démocratie Djibouti
FSA Free
Syrian Army Syria
FSLN Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional Nicaragua
FUC United Front for Change Chad
FUC Front uni
pour Change Chad
FUDP United Front for Democracy
and Peace Chad
FULK Front Uni de Libération Kanak France-New
Cal.
FZLN Frente Zapatista de Liberación Nacional Mexico
GALGAS Guatemala Anti-Salvadoran Liberating
Action Guerrillas Guatemala
GAM Gerakan
Aceh Merdeka Indonesia
GAR Autonomous Revolutionary Groups Portugal
GARI International Revolutionary
Action Group Spain
GATIA Imghad and Allied Tuareg
Self-Defense Movement Mali
GATIA Groupe d‘autodéfense des toureg
Imghad et allies Mali
GBR Bandera Roja Venezuela
GCR Warriors of Christ and King Spain
GIA Armed Islamic Group Algeria
GIA Groupement
Islamique Armée Algeria
GICM Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group Morocco
GICM Groupe
Islamique Combattant Marocain Morocco
GJM Gorkha Janamukti
Morcha India
GLF Guadalcanal Liberation Front Solomon
Islds
GLO Gorkhaland Liberation Organisation India
GNLF Gorkha National Liberation Front India
GRAPO Grupo de
Resistencia Anti-Fascista Primero de Octubre Spain
GSIM Group to Support Islam and Muslims, also JNIM Burkina Faso
GSIM Group to Support Islam and Muslims, also JNIM Mali
GSPC Salafist Group for Call
[Preaching] and Combat Algeria
GSPC Groupe
Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat Algeria
HALC Hynniewtrep
Achik Liberation Council India
HAMAS Islamic Resistance Movement Argentina
TBA
HAMAS al-Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya Argentina
TBA
HAMAS Islamic Resistance Movement Israel
HAMAS al-Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya Israel
HAMAS Islamic Resistance Movement Palestine
HAMAS al-Harakat
al-Muqawama al-Islamiya Palestine
HAN Harakat
al-Nujaba Iraq
HASM Arms of Egypt Movement Egypt
HASM Harakat Sawa’d Misr Egypt
HBDH People’s United Revolutionary
Movement Turkey
HBDH Halkların Birleşik Devrim Hareketi Turkey
HCA High Council of Azawad Mali
HCA Haut conseil de l’Azawad Mali
HCUA High Council for the Unity of
Azawad Mali
HCUA Haut conseil pour l’unité de
l’Azawad Mali
HDO Halkin
Devrimci Onculari Turkey
HHN Harakat
Hizbollh al-Nujaba Syria
HHN Movement of the Party of God’s
Nobles Syria
HI Islamic Party Afghanistan
HI Party of Islam Afghanistan
HI Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan
HIG Party
of Islam Gulbuddin Afghanistan
HIG Hizb-e-Islami
Gulbuddin Afghanistan
Hizbullah Party
of Allah Argentina
TBA
Hizbullah Party
of Allah Israel
Hizbullah Party
of Allah Lebanon
Hizbullah Party
of Allah Palestine
HK People’s
Liberation Turkey
HM Hizb
ul-Mujahideen India
(J+K)
HM Hizb
ul-Mujahideen Pakistan
HM Party of Holy Warriors India
(J+K)
HM Party of Holy Warriors Pakistan
HNC Hadramawt
National Council (HNC) Yemen
HNG Hilfsorganisation für nationale politische Gefangene und
deren
Angehörige e.V. Germany
HNLC Hynniewtrep
National Liberation Council India
HNYTF Hynniewtrep
National Youth Front Tiger Force India
HPG People’s Defense Forces Turkey
HPG Hêzên Parastina Gêl Turkey
HQN Haqqani
Network Afghanistan
HQN Haqqani Network Pakistan
HSDF Hynniewtrep
State Democratic Front India
HSM Party of Youth Eritrea
HSM Harakat al-Shaba’ab al-Mujahedeen Eritrea
HSM Party of Youth Kenya
HSM Harakat al-Shaba’ab al-Mujahedeen Kenya
HSM Party of Youth Somalia
HSM Harakat al-Shaba’ab al-Mujahedeen Somalia
HT Islamic Party of Liberation Bangladesh
HT Hizb
ut-Tahrir al-Islami Bangladesh
HT Islamic Party of Liberation Indonesia
HT Hizb
ut-Tahrir al-Islami Indonesia
HT Hizb-ut-Tahrir Kyrgyzstan
HT Hizb-ut-Tahrir Tajikistan
HT Hizb-ut
Towhid Bangladesh
HTS Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham Syria
HuA Hizbul Ahrar Afghanistan
HUA Movement of Fighters Pakistan
HUA Harkat-ul
Ansar Pakistan
HUJI Islamic Jihad Movement Afghanistan
HUJI Harkat ul-Jihad-i-Islami Afghanistan
HUJI Islamic Jihad Movement India
HUJI Harkat-ul
Jihad al-Islami India
HUJI Islamic Jihad Movement Pakistan
HUJI Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Pakistan
HUJI-B Islamic
Jihad Movement Bangladesh Bangladesh
HUJI-B
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami
Bangladesh Bangladesh
HULA Hajong
United Liberation Army India
HUM Movement of Combatants India
HUM Harkat-ul-Mujahidin India
HUM Movement of Combatants Pakistan
HUM Harkat
ul-Mujahidin Pakistan
HXP [Syrian Kurdish] Self-Defense
Forces Syria
IAA Islamic Army of Aden Yemen
İBDA-C Great Eastern Islamic Raiders’ Front Turkey
İBDA-C İslami Büyükdoğu Akıncılar Cephesi Turkey
ICC Islamic Courts Council Somalia
ICU Islamic Courts Union Somalia
ICU Ittihad al-mahakim al-islamiyya Somalia
IDAM Islam Devriminin
Acil Mucahitleri Turkey
IDP Islami Democratic Party Bangladesh
IFLO Islamic Front for the Liberation
of Oromiya Ethiopia
IG Islamic Group Egypt
IG al-Jama’a
al-Islamiyya Egypt
IG al-Gama’at
al-Islamiyya Egypt
IIPB Islamic International
Peacekeeping Brigade Russia-Chechnya
IJU Islamic Jihad Union Uzbekistan
IK Imarat
Kavkaz Russia-Chechnya
IK Caucasus Emirate Russia-Chechnya
IKO Turkish Islamic Liberation
Army Turkey
IKP-C Islamic Liberation Party Front Turkey
ILA Islamic Liberation Army India
IM Indian Mujahideen India
IM Indian Mujahideen Pakistan
IMIK Islamic Movement of Iraqi
Kurdistan Iraq
IMN Islamic Movement of Nigeria Nigeria
IMU Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Afghanistan
IMU Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Pakistan
IMU Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Turkmenistan
IMU Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Uzbekistan
INA Iraqi National Accord Iraq
INC Iraqi National Congress Iraq
INLA Irish National Liberation Army UK-NI
IPOB Indigenous People of Biafra Nigeria
IPS Iranian Peoples Strugglers Iran
IRA Irish Republican Army UK-NI
IRP Islamic
Renaissance Party Tajikistan
IS Islamic
State Libya
IS Islamic
State Iraq
IS Islamic
State Syria
IS Islamic
State Yemen
IS
SP Islamic State Sinai Province Egypt
ISA Iranian Students Association Iran
IS-CAP Islamic State Central African
Province Mozambique
ISF Islamic Security Force India
ISFY International Sikh Youth
Federation India
ISGS Islamic State in the Greater
Sahara Mali
ISI Islamic State of Iraq Iraq
ISIL/Da’esh
al-Dawla
al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-Sham Indonesia
ISIL/Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Indonesia
ISIL/Da’esh al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa al-Sham Iraq
ISIL/Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Iraq
ISIL/Da’esh
al-Dawla
al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-Sham Lebanon
ISIL/Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Lebanon
ISIL/Da’esh
al-Dawla
al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-Sham Libya
ISIL/Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Libya
ISIL/Da’esh
al-Dawla
al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-Sham Saudi
Arabia
ISIL/Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Saudi
Arabia
ISIL/Da’esh
al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-Sham Somalia-Puntland
ISIL/Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Somalia-Puntland
ISIL/Da’esh
al-Dawla
al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-Sham Syria
ISIL/Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Syria
ISIL/Da’esh
al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-Sham Tunesia
ISIL/Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Tunesia
ISIL/Da’esh
al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa
al-Sham Yemen
ISIL/Da’esh Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Yemen
ISIL-K Islamic
State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan Afghanistan
ISIL-K Islamic
State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan India
ISIL-K Islamic
State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan Pakistan
ISIL-Libya Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant Libya
ISIL-Libya al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Iraq wa al-Sham Libya
ISIS Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria – see ISIL/Da’esh
ISIS-GS Islamic State in Iraq and
Syria-Greater Sahara
ISIS-K Islamic
State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan Afghanistan
ISIS-K Islamic
State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan India
ISIS-K Islamic
State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan Pakistan
ISIS-WA Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria-West Africa
ISK Islamic
State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan Afghanistan
ISK Islamic
State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan India
ISK Islamic
State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan Pakistan
ISKP Islamic
State in Khorasan Province Afghanistan
ISKP Islamic
State in Khorasan Province India
ISKP Islamic
State in Khorasan Province Pakistan
IS-SP Islamic
State in Sinai Province Egypt
ISWAP Islamic State in West Africa
Province Burkina
Faso
ISWAP Islamic State in West Africa
Province Nigeria
JAA Soldiers of al-Aqsa Syria
JAA Jund
al-Aqsa Syria
JAD Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, see JAT Indonesia
JAK-T Jund al-Khilafa in Tunisia Tunisia
JaN Jabhat al-Nusra Syria
JAS Jama’at
Ahl as-Sunnah lid Da’awat wa’l-Jihad, see BH Nigeria
JAT Jemaah Anshorut
Tauhid, see JAD Indonesia
JCAG Justice Commandos of the Armenian
Genocide Turkey
JCT Jama’a Combattante Tunisienne Tunisia
JDL Jewish Defense League USA
JEM Army of Mohammed Afghanistan
JEM Jaish-e-Mohammed Afghanistan
JEM Army of Mohammed Pakistan
JEM Jaish-e-Mohammed Pakistan
JEM Justice and Equality Movement Sudan
JF Front for the Conquest of
the Levant Syria
JF Jabhat
Fathah al-Sham Syria
JI Jama’at-e Islami Bangladesh
JI Islamic Community Indonesia
JI Jemaah Islamiya Indonesia
JI Jemaah Islamiya Philippines
JI Jihad-e-Islami Afghanistan
JI Jama’at-
Islami Bangladesh
JI Islamic Assembly Bangladesh
JI Jihad-e-Islami Pakistan
JIG Jihad Islamic Group Uzbekistan
JKLF Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front India
JKLF Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front Pakistan
JKNLF Jammu and Kashmir National
Liberation Front Pakistan
JMA Jaish al-Muhajireen
wal-Ansar Syria
JMB Jama’at-ul
Mujahideen Bangladesh Bangladesh
JMB Society of Fighters Bangladesh
JMI National Islamic Front Afghanistan
JMI National Islamic Front Pakistan
JMJB Awakened Muslim Masses of Bangladesh Bangladesh
JMJB Jagrata
Muslim
JN Jabhat al-Nuşrah Syria
JNIM Jama’at Nusrat
al-Islam wal-Muslimin, also GSIM Burkina Faso
JNIM Group to Support Islam and Muslims Burkina
Faso
JNIM Jama’at Nusrat
al-Islam wal-Muslimin, also GSIM Mali
JNIM Group to Support Islam and Muslims Mali
JNR Jeunesses
Nationalistes Révolutionnaires France
JRA Japanese Red Army Japan
JRTN Jaish
Riyal al-Tariq al-Nagshabandi Egypt
JRTN Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi
Order Egypt
JSD Jatiya
Samajtantrik Dal Bangladesh
JSD National Soicialist
Party Bangladesh
JSMM Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) Party Pakistan
JSQM Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz (JSQM) Party Pakistan
JSQM-A Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz-Aresar Group Pakistan
JTJ Organization of Monotheism and
Jihad Iraq
JTJ Jam’mat
al-Tawhid wal-Jihad Iraq
JTJ Organization of Monotheism and
Jihad Jordan
JTJ Jam’mat
al-Tawhid wal-Jihad Jordan
JTJ Jama’at at-tawhid wal-jihad fi gharb ‘afriqqiya Mali
JTMM Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha Nepal
JTW Jamā‘at at-Tawḥīd
al-Waṭanīyah Sri Lanka
JUA JuA Jamiat ul-Ansar Pakistan
JuA Jama’at ul-Ahrar Afghanistan
JuA Assembly
of the Free Afghanistan
JuA Jama’at ul-Ahrar Pakistan
JuD Jama’at-ud-Da’wah Pakistan
JUM Jama’at ul-Mujahidin Pakistan
KA Kayinni Army [Karenni Army] Burma
KADEK Democratic Freedom Congress of
Kurdistan Turkey
KADEK Kongreya Azadiya Demokratika Kurdistan Turkey
KaK Kateebaa al-Kawthar Syria
KaM Kataib al-Muhajireen Syria
KCK Union of Kurdistan Societies Turkey
KCK Koma Civakên Kurdistan Turkey
KDP Kurdish Democratic Party Iraq
KF Kurdistan Front Iraq
KGK Kurdistan People’s Congress Turkey
KGK Kongreya
Gelê Kurdistan Turkey
KH Kata’ib Hizballah Iraq,
Syria
KHKO Kurt Halk Kurtuluş Ordusu Turkey
KIA Kachin Independence Army Burma
KIB Katibat al-Imam al-Bukhari Syria
KIB Katibat al-Imam al-Bukhari Uzbekistan
KIO Kachin Independence
Organization Burma
KKK Society of the Kurdistan
Confederation Turkey
KKK Koma Komalên
Kurdistan Turkey
KKK Ku Klux Klan USA
KLA Kosovo Liberation Army Kosovo
KLNLF Karbi Longri National Liberation Front India
KLO Kamptapuri
Liberation Organisation India
KLO Karabakh Liberation
Organization Armenia
KLO Karabakh Liberation
Organization Azerbaijan
KMM Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia Malaysia
KNA Kuki National Army (KNA) India
KNLA Karen National Liberation Army Burma
KNLA-PC Karen National Liberation Army Peace
Council Burma
KNLF Kurdistan National Liberation
Fighters Turkey
KNO Kuki National Organization India
KNPB Komite
Nasional Papua Barat Indonesia
KNPB National Committee for West Papua Indonesia
KNPP Kayinni [Karenni] National
Progressive Party Burma
KNU Karen National Union Burma
KNU/KNLA-PC
KNU/Karen National Liberation Army-Peace Council Burma
KODAR Organization of Free and Democratic Society for
East Kurdistan Iraq
KOIP Kurdistan Oncu
Isci Partisi Turkey
KONGRA-GEL
Congress for Democracy and Freedom in Kurdistan Turkey
KPP Kurdistan People’s Party Iraq
KPDP Kurdistan People’s Party Iraq
KR Khmer Rouge Cambodia
KSP Kurdistan Socialist Party Iraq
KUK Kurdistan Ulusal
Kurtuluşculari Turkey
KZF Khalistan Zindabad
Force India
KZF Khalistan Zindabad
Force Pakistan
LAOS Popular Resistance Sabotage Group Greece
LARF Lebanese Armed Revolutionary
Faction Lebanon
LB Lashkar-i-Balochistan Pakistan
LCMD Lao Citizen’s Movement for
Democracy Laos
LDF Lahu Democratic Front Burma
LDU Lahu Democratic Union Burma
LEHI Israel
Freedom Fighters Israel
LeI Army of Islam Pakistan
LeI Lashkar-e Islam Pakistan
LeJ Army of the Jhangvi al-Alami Pakistan
LeJ Lashkar-e Jhangvi al-Alami Pakistan
LeJ Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Pakistan
LeT Army of the Righteous Afghanistan
LeT Lashkar-e-Taiba [Tayyiba] Afghanistan
LeT Army of the Righteous India
LeT Lashkar-e-Taiba [Tayyiba] India
LeT Army of the Righteous Pakistan
LeT Lashkar-e-Taiba [Tayyiba] Pakistan
LIFG Libyan Islamic Fighting Group Libya
LIFG Al-Jam’a
al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah Libya
LIMC Libyan Islamic Movement for Change Libya
LJ Army of the Jhangvi Pakistan
LJ Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Pakistan
LJA Army of the Jhangvi al-Alami Pakistan
LJA Lashkar-e- Jhangvi al-Alami Pakistan
LJM Liberation and Justice Movement Sudan
LNA Libya National Army Libya
LNDF Lahu National Democratic Front Burma
LP-28 February 28 Popular Leagues El Salvador
LRA Lords
Resistance Army CAR
LRA Lords
Resistance Army South
Sudan
LRA Lords
Resistance Army Sudan
LRA Lords
Resistance Army Uganda
LROR Libya Revolutionaries Operations
Room Libya
LT Lashkar-e-Tayyiba Pakistan
LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Sri
Lanka
LVF Loyalist Volunteer Force UK-NI
M-7 Movement of the Seventh Cuba
M-10 Movimento
de 10 Abril Panama
M-19 Movimiento
19 de Abril Colombia
M23 March 23 Movement Congo
(DR)
MAA Arab Movement of Azawad Mali
MAA-B Arab Movement of Azawad-Bamako Mali
MAA-D Arab Movement of Azawad Dissident Mali
MAA-D Mouvement arabe de l’Azawad Mali
MAC Muslims Against
Crusades UK
MAGO Muslims Against
Global Oppression South
Africa
MAIB Movement for the Self-Determination
of Bioko Island Equatorial Africa
MAIB Movimiento para la Auto-determinación de la Isla de Bioko Equatorial Africa
MAIL Muslims Against
Illegitimate Leaders South
Africa
MAK Mekhtab
al-Khadamat International
MAK Movement for the Autonomy of
Kabylia Algeria
MANO Argentine National Organization
Movement Argentina
MANO Armed Nationalist Movement
Organization Peru
MAPU/L United Popular Action Movement/Lautaro faction Chile
MAR Revolutionary Action Movement Italy
MASSOB Movement for the Actualization of the
Sovereign
State of Biafra Nigeria
MCA Mouvement Corse pour l’Autodétermination France
MCC Maoist Communist Centre India
MCDDI Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral
Development Congo
(B)
MDJT Movement
for Democracy and Justice in Tibesti Chad
MDJT Mouvement
pour la Démocratie et la Justice en Tibesti Chad
MDP Movimiento
Popular Dominicana Dominican
Rep
MDP Movement for National Defense Mali
MDP Mouvement pour
la defense de la patrie Mali
MEF Malaita Eagle Force Solomon
Islds
MEK Mujahedin-e Khalq-e Iran
MEND Movement for the Emancipation of
Niger Delta Nigeria
MFDC Casamance
Movement of Democratic Forces Senegal
MFDC Mouvement
des Forces Démocratiques de la Casamance Senegal
MFDC Movement for Federalism and
Constitutional Democracy Senegal
MFS Syriac
Military Council Syria
MGM Magyar Gárda
Mozgalom Hungary
MGM Hungarian Guard Movement Hungary
MIA Islamic Movement of Azawad Mali
MIA Mouvement
islamique de l’Azawad Mali
MIC Cabinda Independence Movement Angola
MIL Iberian Liberation Movement Spain
MILF Moro Islamic Liberation Front Philippines
MILIA Independent Movement of
Liberation and Allies Congo
(DR)
MIP Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan Pakistan
MIR Movement of the Revolutionary
Left Peru
MIR Movimiento
de la Izquierda Revolucinaria Chile
MIT East Indonesia Mujahideen Indonesia
MIT Mujahidin Indonesia Timur Indonesia
MJL Lautaro
Youth Movement Chile
MJL Movement for Justice and
Freedom Mali
MJL Mouvement pour
la justice et la liberté Mali
MJN Muhammad Jamal Network Egypt
MKO Mujahedin-e Khalq-e
Organization Iran
MKP Maoist Communist Party Turkey
MKP Maoist Komünist Partisi Turkey
MKT Madhesi Mukti
Tigers Nepal
MLA Muslim Liberation Army India
MLAPU Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda
Unit Turkey
MLC Movement for the Liberation of
the Congo Congo
(DR)
MLC Mouvement de Libération Congo
(DR)
MLCJ Movement
of Central African Liberators
for Justice CAR
MLCJ Mouvement
des libérateurs centrafricains pour la
justice CAR
MLF Macina Liberation Front Mali
MLF Katiba Macina Mali
MLKLP Marxist-Lenist
Communist Party Turkey
MLKLP Marksist-Leninist Komünist Partisi Turkey
MLP People’s Liberation Movement Brazil
MLSPB Marksist-Leninist
Silahli Propaganda Birligi Turkey
MML Milli
Muslim League India
MNA National Movement of Azawad Mali
MNA Mouvement
National de l’Azawad Mali
MNDAA Myanmar National Democratic Alliance
Army Burma
MNJ Nigerien Movement for Justice Niger
MNJ Nigériens pour la justice Niger
MNL Movimiento
Nacional de Liberación Uruguay
MNLA Mon National Liberation Army Burma
MNLA Mouvement
National pour la Libération
de l’Azawad Mali
MNLA National Movement for the
Liberation of Azawad Mali
MNLC National Movement for the
Liberation of the Central African
Republic CAR
MNLF Moro National Liberation Front Philippines
MNR Mouvement
nationaliste révolutionnaire France
MOC* Mécanisme
opérationel de coordination Mali
Molinaco Movement for the National
Liberation of Comoro Comoros
MoPoCo Popular Colorado Movement Paraguay
MPA Manipur People’s Army India
MPAIAC Movement for Self-Determination and
Independence
for the Canary
Islands Spain-Canaries
MPC Central
African Patriotic Movement CAR
MPL Movimiento Popular de Liberacion Honduras
MPLA Movimento
Popular de Libertação de Angola Angola
MPLA Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola Angola
MPLF Manipur People’s Liberation
Front India
MPMR Movimiento
Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez Chile
MPRF Madhesi People’s Rights Forum Nepal
MPSA Popular Movement for the Salvation
of Azawad Mali
MPSA Mouvement populaire
pour le salut de ‘Azawad Mali
MR-8 Revolutionary Movement of the 8th Brazil
MR-13 Revolutionary Movement of November
13 Guatemala
MRC Mombasa Republican Council Kenya
MRC Congolese
Revolutionary Movement Congo (DR)
MRC Mouvement
Révolutionnaire Congolais Congo
(DR)
MRPRC People’s Resistance Movement for Reforming of the
Central African Republic CAR
MRTA Movimiento
Revolucionario Tupac Amaru Peru
MSA Movement for the Salvation of
Azawad Mali
MSA Mouvement pour
le salut de l’Azawad Mali
MSC Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of
Jerusalem Palestine
MSC Shura al-Mujahedin Fi Aknaf
Bayt al-Maqdis Palestine
MUJAO Movement for Unity and Jihad in West
Africa Mali
MUJAO Mouvement Unicité et Jihad en Afrique de 'Ouest Mali
MUJAO Jama’at
at-tawhid wal-jihad fi gharb
‘afriqqiya Mali
MULTA Muslim Liberation Tigers of Assam India
MULFA Muslim United Liberation Front of
Assam India
MVK Madhesi
Virus Killers Nepal
N17 Epanastaiki Organos 17 Noemvri Greece
N17 Revolutionary Organization 17 November Greece
NA National
Alliance Chad
NALU National Army for the
Liberation of Uganda Congo
(DR)
NALU National Army for the
Liberation of Uganda Uganda
NAP Armed Proletarian Nuclei Italy
NAR Nucleus of the Armed Revolution Italy
NAS National Salvation Front South
Sudan
NBPP New Black Panther Party USA
NCA-S
EAO Nationwide Ceasefire
Agreement-Signatories Ethnic
Armed Organizations Burma
NCR National Council of Resistance Iran
NCRI National Council of Resistance of
Iran Iran
NDA Niger Delta Avengers Nigeria
NDA-K National Democratic Army-Kachin Burma
NDC Nduma Defense of Congo Congo
(DR)
NDC-R Nduma Defense of Congo-Renovated Congo (DR)
NDDA National Democratic Alliance Army Burma
NDFB National Democratic Front of
Bodoland Bangladesh
NDFB National Democratic Front of
Bodoland Bhutan
NDFB National Democratic Front of
Bodoland India
NDFLOAG
National Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Oman
and the Arabian Gulf
Oman
NDFP National
Democratic Front of the Philippines Philippines
NDPVF Niger
Delta People's Volunteer Force Nigeria
NFSL National Front for the Salvation
of Libya Libya
NIPR Revolutionary Proletarian
Initiative Nuclei Italy
NLA National Liberation Army Iran
NLA National Liberation Army Macedonia
NLF National Liberation Front of
Bahrain Bahrain
NLFB National Liberation Front of
Bengalis India
NLFT National Liberation Front of
Tripura Bangladesh
NLFT National Liberation Front of
Tripura India
NMSP New Mon State Party Burma
NPA New People’s Army Philippines
NPPP New Black Panther Party for
Self-Defense USA
NPWP National Parliament of West Papua Indonesia
NRFPB Federal Republic of West Papua Indonesia
NSCN National Socialist Council of
Nagaland Bangladesh
NSCN National Socialist Council of
Nagaland India
NSCN-I-M National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah India
NSCN-K National Socialist Council of
Nagaland-Khaplang India
NSU Nationalsozialistischer
Untergrund Germany
NTA Anti-Imperialist Territorial
Nuclei Italy
NTJ National Thowheeth
Jama'ath Sri
Lanka
OAS Organisation Armée Secrète France
OAAS Organization of the Armed Arab
Struggle Palestine
OLA Popular Fighters Group Greece
OLA Omadas
Laikon Agoniston Greece
OLA Oromo Liberation Army Ethiopia
OLC Oromiya
Liberation Council Ethiopia
OLF Oromo Liberation Front Ethiopia
ON New Order Italy
ON Ordine
Nuovo Italy
ONLF Ogaden National Liberation Front Ethiopia
OPC Oodua
People’s Congress Nigeria
OPLF Oromo People’s Liberation Front Ethiopia
OPLO Oromo People’s Liberation
Organization Ethiopia
OPM Free Papua Movement Papua
New Guinea
OPR-33 Organization of the Popular
Revolutionary-33 Uruguay
ORA Armed Revolutionary Organization Portugal
ORA Organization of the Armed
Resistance Niger
ORA Organisation
de la Résistance Armée Niger
ORPA Revolutionary Organization of the
People in Arms Guatemala
OPM Organisasai
Papua Merdeka Indonesia
OV Orange Volunteers UK-NI
PAC Proletari Armati per il
Comunismo Italy
PAGAD People Against
Gangsterism and Drugs South
Africa
PALIPEHUTU
-FNL Parti Pour la Libération du Peuple
Hutu-Forces
Nationales de la Libération Burundi
PCC Partito
Comunista Combattente Italy
PCC Communist Combatant Party Italy
PCU Partido
Comunista del Uruguay Uruguay
PCJSS Parbattya Chattagram
PCUD Central
African Party for Unity and
Development CAR
PDFLP Popular Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine Palestine
PDK Coordination of Revolutionary Proletarians Turkey
PDM People’s Democratic Movement South
Sudan
PDT-B Progressive Democratic Tribune–Bahrain Bahrain
PF Patriotic Front Zimbabwe
PFG Petroleum Facility Guard Libya
PFLO Popular Front for Liberation of
Oman Oman
PFLOAG
Popular Front for the Liberation
of the Occupied
Arabian Gulf Oman
PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine Israel
PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine Palestine
PFLP-GC
Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine-
General Command Palestine
PFLP-SC Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine-
Special Command Palestine
PFLP-SOC Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine-
Special Operations Command Palestine
PIJ al-Jihad al-islami Israel
PIJ Palestinian
Islamic Jihad Israel
PIJ al-Jihad al-islami Palestine
PIJ Palestinian Islamic Jihad Palestine
PIRA Provisional Irish Republican
Army UK-NI
PJ Partido Justicialista Argentina
PJAK Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê Iraq
PJAK Party
of Free Life of Kurdistan Iran
PKK Kurdish Workers’ Party Iraq
PKK Partiya Karkerên Kurdistane Iraq
PKK Kurdish Workers’ Party Turkey
PKK Partiya Karkerên Kurdistane Turkey
PKM Philippines Kabataang
Makabayan Philippines
PKP Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas Philippines
PL Front Line1 Italy
PLA Palestine Liberation Army Palestine
PLA Pnar
Liberation Army India
PLAN People’s Liberation Army of
Namibia Namibia
PLF Palestine Liberation Front Palestine
PLF Popular Liberation Forces Ethiopia
PLF-M People’s Liberation Front of
Meghalaya India
PLGA People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army India
PLO Palestine Liberation
Organization Palestine
PLSF Palaung State Liberation
Front Burma
PLSO/A Palaung State Liberation Organization Burma
PMF Popular Mobilization Forces Iraq
PMF al-Hashd al Sha’abi Iraq
PMF Popular Mobilization Forces Syria
PMF al-Hashd al Sha’abi Syria
PMOI People’s Mujahedeen of Iran Iran
PNLO PA-O National Liberation
Organization Burma
PNLM Palestinian National Liberation
Movement – see Fatah
PNRC Parti du Rassemblement de la Nation Centrafricaine CAR
POLISARIO Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra
and Rio de Oro SDAR
POLISARIO Frente Popular
para la Liberación de Saguia el Hamra y
Rio de Oro SDAR
PPG People’s Guerilla Group India
PRM Popular Resistance Movement Egypt
PRM Allied Popular Resistance Movement Egypt
PRMI People's
Resistance Movement of Iran Iran
PRP Popular Revolutionary Party Congo
(DR)
PRP Parti
de la Révolution Populaire Congo
(DR)
PRT Partido
Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Colombia
PRTC Central American Revolutionary
Worker’s Party El
Salvador
PSF Popular Struggle Front Palestine
PPSF Palestine Popular Struggle Front Palestine
PSF Popular Struggle Front Djibouti
PS Partido
Socialista de Chile Chile
PUK Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Iraq
PUK Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Iraq
PULF People’s United Liberation Front India
PULO Pattani United Liberation
Organization Thailand
PWG People’s War Group India
PYD Democratic Union Party Syria
RAF Rote Armee
Fraktion Germany
RCD Congolese Rally for Democracy Congo
(DR)
RCD Rassemblement
Congolais pour la Démocratie Congo
(DR)
RCSS Restoration Council of Shan State Burma
RDFF Revolutionary Democratic Front
Forces Sudan
RED-Tabara Resistance for a State of Law in Burundi Burundi
RED-Tabara Résistance pour un Etat de droit au Burundi Burundi
RENAMO Mozambique National Resistance Mozambique
RENAMO Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana Mozambique
RFC Rally of the Forces for Change CAR
RFC Rassemblement
des Forces pour Change CAR
RFC Rally of the Forces for Change Chad
RFC Rassemblement
des Forces pour Change Chad
RFF Frente Ricardo Franco Colombia
RFF Revolutionary Forces Front Sudan
RHD Red Hand Defenders UK-NI
RI Chechen
Republic Ichkeria Russia-Chechnya
RID Russian Imperial Movement (Russkoe imperskoe dvizhenie) Russia
RIUF Retrieval of Indigenous United
Front India
RIRA Real IRA UK-NI
RJ Justice Riot CAR
RJO Revolutionary Justice
Organization Lebanon
RJO Revolutionary Justice
Organization Palestine
RM Outraged Citizens Congo
(DR)
RM Raia
Mutomboki Congo
(DR)
RMJ RENAMO Military Junta Mozambique
RN Revolutionary Nuclei Greece
ROSM Revolutionary Organization of
Socialist Muslims Palestine
RPP Revolutionary Proletarian Army Philippines
RPR People’s Rwandan Rally Rwanda
RPR Rassemblement
Populaire Rwandais Rwanda
RPRC Rassemblement Patriotique pour le Renouveau de
la Centrafrique CAR
RRA Rahanweyne
Resistance Army Somalia
RS Revolutionary Struggle, se EA Greece
RSM Rajah Solaiman
Movement Philippines
R-SPLM Real
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement South
Sudan
RSRSBCM Riyadus-Salikhin
Reconnaissance and Sabotage
Battalion of Chechen Martyrs Russia-Chechnya
RUD Rally
for Unity and Democracy Congo
(DR)
RUD Ralliement
pour l’Unité et la Démocratie Congo
(DR)
RUD Rally
for Unity and Democracy Rwanda
RUD Ralliement
pour l’Unité et la Démocratie Rwanda
RUF Revolutionary United Front Sierra
Leone
RZ Revolutionäre
Zellen Germany
SAF Sudanese Alliance Forces Sudan
SAH Shahadat-e al-Hikma (SAH) Party Bangladesh
SAIRI Supreme Assembly of the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq Iraq
SaM al-Mukhtar Brigade Bahrain
SaM Saraya al-Mukhtar Bahrain
SANC South African National Congress South
Africa
SAWIO Organization of the Struggle Against World Imperialism Palestine
SBF Security Belt Forces Yemen
SCIRI Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq Iraq
SCSR Supreme Council of the Syrian Revolution Syria
SDF Syrian Democratic Forces Syria
SDLF Sabaot
Land Defence Force Kenya
SDU Shan Democratic Union Burma
SE Sect of Revolutionaries Greece
SIMI Students Islamic Movement of
India India
SIPR Special Purpose Islamic Regiment Russia-Chechnya
SJM Samjukta
SL Sendero
Luminoso Peru
SLA Sindhu Desh Liberation
Army Pakistan
SLA South Lebanon Army Lebanon
SLA Sudan Liberation Army South
Sudan
SLA/MM Sudan Liberation Army-Minni Minawi Sudan
SLF Sidama
Liberation Front Ethiopia
SLM Sudan Liberation Movement Sudan
SLM-A Sudan Liberation Movement-Abdul
Wahid Sudan
SLM-A Sudan Liberation Movement-Abdulshafi Sudan
SLM-AM Sudan Liberation Movement-Arko Minnawi Sudan
SLM-N Sudan Liberation Movement-North Sudan
SMM Southern Mobility Movement Yemen
SNC Syrian National Council Syria
SNDA Sudanese National Democratic
Alliance Sudan
SNF Somali
National Front Somalia
SNM Somali National Movement Somalia
SOPO Freedom for the Serbian Fatherland Serbia
SPDF Sudan People’s Democratic Front/Defence Force South
Sudan
SPLA Sudan People’s Liberation Army South
Sudan
SPLA Sudanese People’s Liberation Army Sudan
SPLA-IO Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In
Opposition South
Sudan
SPLA-N Sudan People’s Army-North Sudan
SPLM/A Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement/Army South
Sudan
SPLM/A-N Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement/Army-North South
Sudan
SPLM-N Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North Sudan
SPLM-N Harakat Al-Sha'abi Li-Tahrir Al-Sudan-Al-Shamal Sudan
SPLM-IO Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In
Opposition South Sudan
SPM Somali Patriotic Movement Somalia
SPTF Conspiracy of Nuclei of
Fire-Nihilists Sect Greece
SRA Sindhu Desh Revolutionary
Army Pakistan
SRCC Syrian Revolutionary Command
Council Syria
SRF Sudan Revolutionary Front Sudan
SRGC Syrian Revolution General
Commission Syria
SSA Shan State Army Burma
SSA South Sudan Army South
Sudan
SSDF South Sudan Defense Force South
Sudan
SSLA South Sudan Liberation Army South
Sudan
SSLM South Sudan Liberation Movement South
Sudan
SSNA Shan State National Army Burma
SSOA South Sudan Opposition Alliance South
Sudan
SSOMA South
Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance South
Sudan
SSP Army of the Companions of the
Prophet Pakistan
SSP Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan Pakistan
SSPP Shan State Progress Burma
SSUF/A South Sudan United Front/Army South
Sudan
STC Southern Transitional Council Yemen
SWAPO South West Africa People’s
Organization of Namibia Namibia
TAJK Movement for Freedom for Jammu
and Kashmir India
TAJK Tehreek-e
Azadi-e Kashmir India
TAK Movement for Freedom for Azad and Kashmir Pakistan
TAK Tehrik-i-Azadi-i-Kashmir Pakistan
TAK Kurdistan Freedom Falcons Turkey
TAK Teyrêbazên Azadiya Kurdistan Turkey
TCG Tunisian Combatant Group Tunisia
TDKP Türkiye Devrimci Komünist Partisi Turkey
THKPC People’s
Liberation Party-Front of Turkey Turkey
THKPC Tűrkiye
Halk Kurtuluş Parti Cephesi Turkey
THKPC-K Tűrk Halk Kurtuluş Parti Cephesi-Kurtuluş Turkey
THKP-C/
MLSPB Marksist Leninist Silahh
Propaganda Birliği Turkey
THKP-C/
MLSPB People’s
Liberation Party-Front
of TurkeyMarxist-Leninist
Armed Propaganda Union Turkey
TI Movement for the
Renewal of Islam Pakistan
TI Tanzeem-e-Islami Pakistan
TIKB Turkish Islamic Liberation Union Turkey
TİKB Revolutionary
Communist Union of Turkey Turkey
TIK-C Turkish Islamic Liberation Front Turkey
TIKKO Turkish Workers’ and Peasants’
Liberation Army Turkey
TIKKO Tűrkiye
Isci Koylu Kurtukluş Ordusu Turkey
TIMO Tűrkiye
Islam Kurtuluş Mucahitleri Ordusu Turkey
TIP Turkistan Islamic Party China-Xinjiang
TKEP/L Communist Labor Party of
Turkey/Leninist Turkey
TKEP/L Türkiye Komünist Emek
Partisi/Leninist Turkey
TKP/ML Communist
Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist Turkey
TKP/ML Türkiye
Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist Turkey
TMLA Tamil Nadu Liberation Army India
TNLA Ta’ang National Liberation Army Burma
TNSM Movement for the Enforcement of
Islamic Law and Islam Afghanistan
TNSM Tanzeem-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Afghanistan
TNSM Movement for the Enforcement of
Islamic Law and Islam Pakistan
TNSM Tanzeem-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Pakistan
TNSM Tehrik-e-Nifa-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi Afghanistan
TPLA Turkish People’s Liberation Army Turkey
TPLF
Tigray Peoples Liberation
Front Ethiopia
TPLP/F Turkish People’s Liberation
Party/Front Turkey
TPN West Papua National Liberation Army Indonesia
TPN Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Indonesia
TPN West Papua National Liberation Army Papua New
Guinea
TPN Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Papua
New Guinea
TQJBR Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad
al-Rafidayn Iraq
TSIK Turkish Shari’a Revenge
Commandos Turkey
TTQA Tehrik-e-Tahafuz
Qibla Awal Pakistan
TTP Taliban Movement of Pakistan Afghanistan
TTP Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Afghanistan
TTP Taliban Movement of Pakistan Pakistan
TTP Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Pakistan
TULF Tamil United Liberation Front Sri
Lanka
TWPLA Turkish Workers’ and Peasants’
Liberation Army Turkey
TV Troisième Voie France
UANF United Achik
National Front India
UBA United Baloch Army Pakistan
UBLF United Bengali Liberation Front Bangladesh
UBLF United Bengali Liberation Front India
UÇK
Ushtria
Çlirimtare e Kosoves Kosovo
UÇK
Ushtria
Çlirimtare Kombetare Macedonia
UÇPMB/
OVPMB
Ushtria Çlirimtare e Preshevës,
Medvegjës dhe Bujanocit Kosovo
UÇPMB/
OVPMB
Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac Kosovo
UDA Ulster Defense Association UK-NI
UDMF United Madhesi Democratic Front Nepal
UFDA Union of Democratic Forces for
Action CAR
UFDD Union of Forces for Democracy and
Development Chad
UFDD Union de Forces pour la Démocratie et le Développement Chad
UFDD Union of Forces for Democracy and
Development Libya
UFDD Union de Forces pour la Démocratie et le Développement Libya
UFDR Union of Democratic Forces for the
Rally CAR
UFDR Union des Forces Démocratiques pour le Rassemblement CAR
UFDU Union of Democratic Forces for Unity car
UFDU Union des Forces Démocratiques
pour l’Unité CAR
UFF Ulster Freedom Fighters UK-NI
UFLD United Front for Liberation and
Democracy Sudan
UFLKA Union of Forces for the Liberation
of Katanga Congo
(DR)
UFLKA Union of Forces for the Liberation
of Katanga Congo
(DR)
UFR Republican Forces Union CAR
UFR Union
of Resistance Forces Chad
UFR Union
des Forces de la Résistance Chad
UFRA Union of Forces of the Armed
Resistance Niger
UFRA Tuareg Union of the Armed
Resistance Forces Niger
UFRA Union des Forces de la Résistance Armée Niger
UGB White Warriors Union El
Salvador
UGNF United Gurkha National Front India
UIFSA United Islamic Front for the
Salvation of Afghanistan Afghanistan
UJTMM United
Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha Nepal
UKLF United Kuki Liberation Front India
ULA United League of Arakan Burma
ULFA United Liberation Front of Assam Bangladesh
ULFA United Liberation Front of Assam Bhutan
ULFA United Liberation Front of Assam India
ULMWP United
Liberation Movement for West Papua Papua
New Guinea
UNI National
Independence Union Djibouti
UNITA União
para a Independéncia Total de Angola Angola
UNLF United National Liberation Front India
UNLF United National Liberation Front
Manipur Bangladesh
UNLF United National Liberation Front
Manipur India
UOLF United Oromo Liberation Forces Ethiopia
UOPFL United Oromo People’s Liberation
Front Ethiopia
UPAP Union of the Peoples of the
Arabian Peninsula Saudi
Arabia
UPC Union for Peace in the
Central African Republic CAR
UPC Union
of Congolese Patriots Congo
(DR)
UPC Union des Patriotes
Congolais Congo
(DR)
UPC Union of Corsican People France
UPDF United People’s Democratic Front Bangladesh
UPDS United People’s Democratic
Solidarity India
URF United Resistance Front Sudan
URFB United Revolutionary Front of
Bhutan Bhutan
URFF United Revolutionary Forces Front Sudan
URNG Guatemalan National Revolutionary
Unity Guatemala
USC United Somali Congress Somalia
UTO United Tajik Opposition Tajikistan
UVF Ulster Volunteer Force UK-NI
UWSA United Wa
State Army Burma
VPR Vanguarda
Popular Revolucionaria Brazil
WPCNL West Papua National Coalition for
Liberation Indonesia
WSLF Western Somali Liberation Front Somalia
WSLF Western Somali Liberation Front Ethiopia
WTA World Tamil Association Sri
Lanka
WTM World Tamil Movement Sri
Lanka
YDG-H Patriotic Revolutionary Youth
Movement Turkey
YIM Yusufiya
Islamic Movement Nigeria
YIJ Yemeni Islamic Jihad Yemen
YMB Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade Syria
YPG People’s Protection Units Syria
YPG Yekîneyên
Parastina Gel Syria
YPJ Women’s Protection Units Syria
YSB Yemeni Soldiers’ Brigades Yemen
ZANU Zimbabwe
African National Union Zimbabwe
ZAPU Zimbabwe African Peoples Union Zimbabwe
ZJB Ziyadal-Jarrah
Battalions Syria
Notes
Listing
includes groups and organizations active before 2010 which are no longer
included in current survey.
No
claim is made to completeness or existence of listed organizations. Some groups have used the listed name just a
few times while operating for another organization.
* non-English
abbreviation
# no longer in use
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
Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Office
of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), US Special Inspector
General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), Voice of America (VOA), World
Health Organization (WHO), Xinhua News Agency, Yeni Şafak.
Completion: Includes information
dated 28 March 2021 or earlier. Completed in March 2021.
(Replacing World: Militant and
Revolutionary Organizations Abbreviations, Global Survey, Vol. 48, No.
6M/495, November 2018.)
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