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Liberation Movements, Terrorist Organizations,
Substance Cartels, and Other Para-State Entities

Note: This archived directory of para-state entities is not current or complete.

Para-States - Scope Note

1. 15 May Organization
2. 3rd October Organization
3. 17 November Revolutionary Organization
4. Abu Nidal organization (ANO)
5. Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
6. Action Directe
7. Aceh Merdeka
8. Ahl-e-Hadees
9. Aid for Northern Ireland
10. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
11. Al-`Asifa
12. Al-Badhr Mujahidin
13. Al Faran
14. Al-Fatah
15. al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
16. Al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI)
17. al-Jihad
18. al-Qa'ida (The Base)
19. Albanian National Army (ANA)
20. Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB)
21. Algeti Wolves
22. Ali Suleiyman
23. Alliance of Eritrean National Force
24. Alliance pour la resistance democratique (ARD)
25. Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)
26. AMAL
27. Amn Araissi
28. Ansar al-Islam
29. Anti-Imperialist International Brigade (AIIB)
30. Anti-Imperialist Territorial Nuclei (NTA)
31. Arab Revolutionary Brigades
32. Arab Revolutionary Council
33. Arewa People's Congress [Nigeria]
34. Armed Forces of Puerto Rican National Liberation (FALN)
35. Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
36. Armed Islamic Movement [AIM]
37. Armed Nuclei for Proletarian Autonomy
38. Armed Proletarian Nuclei
39. Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (ARN)
40. Arm�e pour la lib�ration du Rwanda (ALIR)
41. Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)
42. 'Asbat al-Ansar
43. Aum Shinrikyo
44. Aum Supreme Truth
45. Azad Khalistan
46. Babbar Khalsa
47. Babbar Khalsa Force
48. Baader Meinhof Gang
49. Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
50. Bavarian Liberation Army
51. Bhinderanwala Tiger Force
52. Black Mamba
53. Black September
54. Breton Liberation Front
55. Breton Revolutionary Army
56. Brigades of the Martyr Abdallah Al Hudhaifi
57. Brigate Rosse
58. Cambodian Freedom Fighters
59. Caprivi Liberation Front
60. Catholic Reaction Force (CRF)
61. Cellules Communistes Combattantes
62. Chukaku-Ha
63. CNRM National Council of Maubere Resistance
64. CNRT Timorese National Resistance Council
65. Commandos of the November 95 Anarchist Group
66. Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights
67. Committee for Eastern Turkistan
68. Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
69. Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
70. Conseil national pour la d�fense de la democratie (CNDD)
71. Dal Khalsa
72. Dark Harvest
73. Dayak
74. Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
75. Democratic Karen Burmese Army (DKBA)
76. Devrimci Sol (Revolutionary Left)
77. Dev Sol
78. Direct Action Against Drugs (DADD)
79. Djibouti Youth Movement
80. Dukhtaran E Millat
81. Eastern Shan State Army (ESSA)
82. Ejercito Popular Boricua (Macheteros)
83. Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR)
84. ELA - Revolutionary People's Struggle
85. Ellalan Force
86. ELN - National Liberation Army -- Colombia
87. EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston)
88. ERP [Ej�rcito Revolucionario del Pueblo]
89. Eritrean Democratic Liberation Movement
90. Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement
91. Eritrean Liberation Front-Revolutionary Council (ELF-RC)
92. Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF)
93. Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) - Basque Fatherland and Liberty
94. Executive Outcomes
95. FALINTIL National Armed Forces for the Liberation of East Timor
96. Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)
97. FARC - Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
98. Fatah Revolutionary Council
99. Fatah Special Operations Group
100. Federation of Associations of Canadian Tamils (FACT)
101. Fighting Islamic Group (FIG)
102. Force 17
103. Forces armees du peuple (FAP)
104. ex-FAR (Forces armees rwandaises)
105. Forces nationales de liberation (FNL)
106. Forces de liberation nationale (FALINA)
107. Forces pour la d�fense de la democratie (FDD)
108. Fraxia Midheniston
109. Free Aceh
110. Free Aceh Movement
111. Free Papua Movement
112. FPM - Morazanist Patriotic Front
113. FPMR - Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front
114. FRETILIN Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor
115. Front contre l�occupation tutsie (FLOT)
116. Front De La Liberation Nationale
117. Front Line
118. Front pour la liberation nationale (FROLINA)
119. Fuerzas Armadas Liberacion Nacional Puertoriquena (FALN)
120. al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya
121. Gerakin Aceh Merdeka (GAM)
122. God's Army
123. GRAPO - 1 October Antifascist Resistance Group
124. Gray Wolves [Sivi Vukovi]
125. Grey Wolves
126. Great East Islamic Raiders�Front (IBDA-C)
127. HAMAS
128. Harakat ul-Ansar (HUA)
129. Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HUJI)
130. Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
131. Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
132. Hawari Group
133. Hawari Special Operations Group
134. Hizballah Al Khalji
135. Hizballah [Bahrain]
136. Hizballa [Kuwait]
137. Hizballah [Lebanon]
138. Hizbullah [Turkish]
139. Hizb-i-Islami
140. Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG)
141. Hizb-i Wahdat
142. Hizb ul-Mujahidin (HM)
143. Ikhwan-ul-Mussalmin
144. Interahamwe
145. International Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders
146. International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders
147. International Justice Group
148. International Revolutionary Action Group
149. International Sikh Youth Federation
150. Iparretarrak (IK)
151. Iranian National Front
152. Iraqi National Accord (INA)
153. Iraqi National Congress
154. Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)
155. Irish Republican Army (IRA)
156. Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Continuity
157. Irish Republican Army (IRA) - New
158. Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Provisional
159. Irish Republican Army (IRA) - Real
160. Isatabu Freedom Movement
161. Islamic Army of Aden
162. Islamic Group (IG)
163. Islamic Great Eastern Raiders Front
164. Jamat-E- Islami
165. Islamic Armed Group (GIA)
166. Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade
167. Islamic Jihad [Egypt]
168. Islamic Jihad [Lebanon]
169. Islamic Jihad [Turkey]
170. Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
171. Islamic Liberation Army (AIS)
172. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
173. Islamic Movement Organization
174. Islamic Movement for Change
175. Islamic Reform Movement
176. Islamic Resistance Movement
177. Islamic Salvation Army
178. Islamic Salvation Front / Movement (FIS)
179. Islamic Salvation Movement
180. Islamic Union (Al-Ittihad al-Islami)
181. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
182. Al-Jama�a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya
183. Jemaah Islamiya (JI)
184. Jamat-e-Islami
185. Jamaat ul-Fuqra
186. Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadees
187. Jamiat ul-Mujahidin
188. Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
189. Japanese Red Army (JRA)
190. Jihad Group
191. Kach
192. Kachin Defense Army (KDA)
193. Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)
194. Kahane Chai
195. Khalistan Liberation Tiger Force
196. Khalistan Commando Force
197. Khalistan Liberation Front
198. Khalistan National Army
199. Khmer Rouge
200. Komala
201. Ku Klux Klan
202. Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM)
203. Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)
204. Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
205. Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
206. La Cosa Nostra
207. Lashkar I Jhangvi
208. Lashkar-e-Taiba
209. Lautaro Youth Movement (MJL)
210. Lautaro faction of the United Popular Action Movement (MAPU/L)
211. Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces (FRPL)
212. Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction
213. Les mongoles
214. Liberation Army of the Islamic Sanctuaries
215. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
216. Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)
217. Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
218. Macheteros
219. Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK - Services Office
220. Malaita Eagles Force
221. Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR)
222. Maoist Communist Centre (MCC)
223. Martyrs of Tal Al Za'atar
224. Mau Mau
225. Mayi-Mayi
226. Meccan Group
227. Middle-Core Faction
228. Minnesota Patriots Council
229. Mong Tai Army (MTA)
230. Mohajir Qaumi Movement [MQM]
231. Morazanist Patriotic Front (FPM)
232. Moro Islamic Liberation Front [MILF]
233. Moro National Liberation Front [MNLF]
234. Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
235. Mothaidda Quami Movement (MQM)
236. Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO)
237. Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC)
238. Movement for an Islamic State
239. Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC)
240. Movimento Sociale Italiano
241. Movimiento De Liberacion Nacional
242. MRTA - Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
243. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO)
244. Muslim Brotherhood
245. Muslim Iranian Student's Society
246. Muslims Against Global Oppresion
247. Muttahida Jihad Council [MJC]
248. Muttahidda Quami Movement (MQM)
249. Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA)
250. National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU)
251. National Committee for the Liberation and Defense of Albanian Lands (KKCMTSH)
252. National Council for Resistance (NCR)
253. National Front for the Liberation of Corsica
254. National Liberation Army (ELN) -- Bolivia
255. National Liberation Army (ELN) -- Colombia
256. National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA)
257. National Liberation Front Of Kurdistan (ERNK)
258. National Patriotic Front of Liberia
259. National United Front of Arakan (NUFA)
260. New Jihad Group
261. New Mon State Party (NMSP)
262. New People's Army (NPA)
263. New Red Brigades/Communist Combatant Party
264. Northern Alliance
265. Nucleus Faction
266. Orange Volunteers
267. Ordine Nuovo (New Order)
268. Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM)
269. Organisation of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority) OIPFM
270. Organization of the Oppressed on Earth
271. Orly Group
272. Osama bin Laden
273. Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
274. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
275. Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
276. Parti pour la liberation du peuple hutu (PALIPEHUTU)
277. Partido Democratico Popular Revolucionario (PDPR)
278. Party of Allah
279. Party of Democratic Kampuchea
280. Party of God
281. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
282. People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
283. People's Liberation Army (PLA) Ireland
284. People's Liberation Army Of Kurdistan (ARGK)
285. People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI)
286. People's Republican Army (PRA)
287. Peoples' War Group (PWG) [India]
288. Peoples' War Group (PWG) [Nepal]
289. Peuple en armes pour la liberation du Rwanda (PALIR)
290. Pirates
291. PKK - Kurdistan Workers' Party
292. Popular Boricua Army (Macheteros)
293. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
294. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
295. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Command (PFLP-SC)
296. Popular Liberation Forces
297. Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR)
298. Popular Revolutionary Vanguard
299. Popular Struggle Front (PSF)
300. Prima Lina
301. Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA)
302. Provos
303. Puka Inti
304. Rajneeshee
305. Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD)
306. Real IRA
307. Red Army Faction (RAF)
308. Red Brigades
309. Red Hand Defenders
310. RENAMO - Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana
311. Recontra 380
312. Recontras
313. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
314. Revolutionary Cells
315. Revolutionary Council of Nigeria (RCN)
316. Revolutionary Justice Organization
317. Revolutionary Left
318. Revolutionary Nuclei
319. Revolutionary Organization 17 November
320. Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims
321. Revolutionary Organization of the Toilers of Kurdistan
322. Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
323. Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)
324. Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR)
325. Revolutionary Struggle
326. Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
327. Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs
328. Russian Organized Crime (ROC)
329. Rwandan Liberation Army
330. Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
331. Saheed Khalsa Force
332. Sendero Luminoso (SL)
333. Serb Volunteer Guard [SDG / SSJ] "Tigers"
334. Serbian Radical Party [SRS]
335. Shan Democratic Union
336. Shining Path
337. Shora-e-Jehad
338. Sipah I Sahaba Pakistan
339. SLA - South Lebanese Army
340. Special Purpose Islamic Regiment
341. Students of the Engineer
342. Students of Yahya Ayyash
343. Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA)
344. Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)
345. Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)
346. Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI)
347. Talaa' al-Fateh
348. Taleban
349. Terra Lliure (TL) (Free Land)
350. Territorial Anti Imperialist Nucleus
351. The Brotherhood
352. The Order
353. The Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG)
354. Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
355. Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army
356. Turkish Hizballah
357. Turkish Islamic Jihad
358. Turkish Peoples Liberation Army
359. Uganda National Rescue Front
360. Uganda National Rescue Front II
361. Uganda Salvation Front/Army
362. Uighur militants
363. Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
364. UDT Uniao Democratica Timorense
365. Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)
366. Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
367. Union des forces vives pour la liberation et la democratie en RDC-Zaire (UFLD)
368. Union pour la liberation nationale (ULINA)
369. UNITA Union Nacional Por La Independencee Totale Do Angola
370. United Company of Jihad
371. United Jihad Council
372. United Liberation Front of Assam
373. United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC)
374. United Wa State Army (UWSA)
375. Vanguards of Conquest
376. Vasat
377. Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors
378. Weathermen
379. Weather Underground Organization
380. West Nile Bank Front [WNBF]
381. White Eagles
382. World Tamil Association (WTA)
383. World Tamil Movement (WTM)
384. Zapatista National Liberation Army
385. Zimbabwe African National Union

Sources and Resources

• Country Reports on Terrorism, U.S. Department of State
• Congressional Research Service reports on terrorism
• Alphabetical Listing of All Blocked Persons, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Designated Narcotics Traffickers, and Others, Treasury Dept Office of Foreign Assets Control, Federal Register Notice, May 27, 2004.
• Foreign Terrorist Organization: Aliases and Additional Names, State Department notice, Federal Register, October 10, 2003.
• Redesignation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, State Dept Notice, Federal Register, October 2, 2003
• Left-Wing Extremism: The Current Threat, prepared for U.S. Department of Energy Office of Safeguards and Security, April 2001.
• Fact Sheet: Foreign Terrorist Organizations, as of March 27, 2002.
• Designations of Terrorists and Terrorist Organizations Pursuant to Executive Order 13224, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, State Department, Federal Register, March 19, 2002.
• Designation of 39 Organizations on the USA PATRIOT Act's "Terrorist Exclusion List", State Department release, December 6, 2001.
• Terrorism Threat Assessments

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