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Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide

 

Country
Group Name
Acronym
Original Language Name
Status
Afghanistan Harkat-i-Islami

Active
Afghanistan Jamaat e Islami

Active
Afghanistan National Islamic Movement NIM [Jumbish-i-Milli] Active
Afghanistan Northern Alliance

Active
Afghanistan Taliban Militia

Active
Afghanistan United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan UIFSA
Active
Algeria Alliance for a Free Kabylie AKAL
Uncertain
Algeria Armed Islamic Group GIA [Groupe Islamique Armee] Active
Algeria Belmokhtar Group


Algeria Islamic Salvation Front / Islamic Salvation Army FIS/AIS [Front Islamique du Salut, Armee Islamique du Salut] Active
Angola Cabinda Democratic Front FDC [Frente Democratica de Cabinda]
Angola Cabinda Enclave Liberation Front - Cabinda Armed Forces FLEC-FAC [Frente de LEC-Forcas Armadas Cabindesas] Active
Angola Cabinda Enclave Liberation Front - Renovada FLEC-R [Frente de Libertacao do Enclave de Cabinda-Renovada] Active
Angola National Union for the Total Independence of Angola UNITA [Union Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola] Active
Austria Bavarian Liberation Army BLA
Active
Austria People's Extra Parliamentary Opposition VAPO
Active
Bahrain Hezbollah-Gulf/Bahrain

Active
Bahrain Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain IFLB
Active
Bahrain Movement for the Liberation of Bahrain MLB
Active
Bangladesh Shanti Bahini

Cease-fire
Belgium Fighting Communist Cells CCC [Cellules Communistes Combattantes] Dormant
Bolivia National Liberation Army - Bolivia ELN [Ejército de Liberación Nacional] Dormant, 1996
Bolivia Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army EGTK [Ejercito Guerrillero Tupac Katari] Possibly active
Burundi Forces for the Defense of Democracy FDD [Forces pour la Défense de la Democratie] Active
Burundi National Council for the Defense of Democracy CNDD [Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie] Active
Burundi National Liberation Forces FNL [Forces Nationales de Libération] Active
Burundi National Liberation Front Frolina [Front de Libération Nationale] Active
Burundi Party for the Liberation of the Hutu People PLPH [Parti pour la Libération du Peuple Hutu] Active
Cambodia Party of Democratic Kampuchea
[Khmer Rouge] Active
Canada Front de Liberation du Quebec FLQ
Inactive
Chad Armed Forces for a Federal Republic FARF [Forces Armées pour un République Féderale] Active
Chad Chadian National Front FNT [Front Nationale du Tchad] Active
Chad Movement for Democracy and Development MDD [Mouvement pour la Démocratie et la Développement]
Chad National Awakening Committee for Peace and Democracy CSNPD

Chad National Council for Rebuilding Chad CNTR

Chad National Council for Recovery CNR

Chad National Front for the Renewal of Chad FNTR [Front Nationale pour le Tchad Renovée] Active
Chad People's Democratic Front PDF [Front du Peuple Democratique] Active
Chad Union of Democratic Forces UFD [Union des Forces Démocratiques] Active
Chile Lautaro Youth Movement MJL [Movimiento de Juventud Lautaro] Dormant
Chile Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front - Autonomous FPMR/A [Frente Patriótica Manuel Rodríguez-Autónomo]
Chile Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front - Dissidents FPMR/D [Frente Patriótica Manuel Rodríguez] Active (Chile's only)
Chile Movimento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria MIR [Movimento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria] Dormant
Chile United Popular Action Movement-Lautaro MAPU-L [Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitario-Lautaro]
China Tibetan Separatists

Active
China Uighur Muslim Separatists

Active
Colombia April 19 Movement M-19 [Movimiento 19 de Abril] A few are active
Colombia National Liberation Army - Colombia ELN [Ejército de Liberación Nacional] Active
Colombia Peasant Self-Defense Group of Cordoba and Uraba ACCU [Peasant Self-Defense Group of Cordoba and Uraba] Active
Colombia Popular Liberation Army EPL [Ejército Popular de Liberación] Active
Colombia Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC [Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia] Active
Colombia Ricardo Franco Front FRF [Frente Ricardo Franco] Active (as bandits)
Colombia United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia AUC [Autodefensas Unidos de Colombia] Active
Comoros Anjouan Island separatists

Active
Cuba April 19 Movement M-19 [Movimiento 19 de Abril] Inactive
Cuba Che Guevara Brigade

Inactive
Djibouti Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy FRUD [Front pour la Restoration d'Unité et Démocratie] Active
Djibouti Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy - Dini FRUD [Front pour la Restoration d'Unité et Démocratie - Dini] Active
Dominican Republic Anti-Imperialist Patriotic Union UPA

Ecuador Alfaro Lives, Damnit! AVC [¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo!] Active (one faction)
Ecuador People's Combatants Group GCP [Grupo de Combatante de Pueblo] Formed in 11/1998
Ecuador Red Sun
[Sol Rojo] or [Puka Inti] Officially disbanded
Egypt al-Jihad


Egypt Egyptian Islamic Jihad Group

Active
Egypt Islamic Group IG / GAI [al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya] Active
Egypt Vanguards of Conquest


El Salvador Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front FMLN [Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberación Nacional] Political Party
Equatorial Guinea Movement for the Autodetermination of the Island of Bioko MAIB [Movimiento para la Auto-determinación de la Isla de Bioko] Active
Eritrea Active Al-Ittihad al-Islami

Active
Eritrea Eritrean Liberation Front ELF
Active
Ethiopia Al-Ittihad al-Islami

Active
France Action Directe AD [Action Directe] Dormant
France Corsican National Liberation Front-Historic Wing FLNC-HW
Active
France Corsican National Liberation Front-Traditional Wing FLNC-CH
Active
France Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front FLNKS [Front de Libération Nationale Kanak Socialiste] Active, non-violent
Georgia Abkhazia rebels

Active
Georgia Algetian Wolves
[Algeti Mglebi]
Georgia Horsemen
[Mkhedrioni] Uncertain
Georgia Internal Opposition Zviadists


Georgia South Ossetian Rebels

Cease-fire
Georgia Ukrainian Self-Defence Organisation UNSO

Georgia White Legion


Germany Anti-Imperialist Cell AIZ [Antiimperialistische Zelle]
Germany June 2


Germany Red Army Faction RAF [Rote Armee Fraktion] Disbanded 4/21/98
Germany Revolutionary Cells RZ [Revolutionaere Zellen] Dormant
Greece Anarchist Street Patrol

Active
Greece Children of November

Active
Greece Conscientious Arsonists

Active
Greece Fighting Guerrilla Formation MAS
Active
Greece Militant Guerilla Formation

Active
Greece New Group of Satanists

Active
Greece November 17 RO-17 [Epanastaiki Organosi 17 Noembri] Active
Greece Revolutionary Popular Struggle ELA [Epanastikos Laikos Agonas] Active
Greece Revolutionary Subversive Faction - Commando Unabomber

Active
Guatemala Guatemalan National Revolutionary Party URNG [Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca] Disarmed in 1997
Guinea-Bissau Ansumané Mané rebellion


Guyana Guyana National Service

Disbanded
Guyana Guyana People's Militia

Disbanded
Honduras Cinchonero Popular Liberation Movement MPL
Unclear; long quiet
Honduras Comandos Operativos Especiales COES
Active
Honduras Morazanist Patriotic Front FPM
Inactive, but intact
Honduras Popular Revolutionary Forces Lorenzo Zelaya FRP-LZ [Fuerzas Revolutionnarios Populares Lorenzo Zelaya] Inactive
India Al Faran

Active
India Al Hadid

Active
India Al Jihad

Active
India All India Sikh Students Federation

Active
India All Tripura Tiger Force ATTF
Active
India Ananda Marg

Active politically
India Azar Khalistan Babbar Khalsa Force

Active
India Babbar Khalsa

Active
India Bodo Liberation Tiger Force BLTF
Active
India Bodo Security Force BSF
Active
India Dal Khalsa

Active
India Dashmesh Regiment

Active
India Garo National Front

Active
India Harakat ul-Ansar HUA
Active
India Hizb-ul Mujahideen

Active
India Jamaat-e-Islam

Active
India Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front JKLF
Active
India Khalistan Commando Force

Active
India Khalistan Liberation Front

Active
India Khalistan Zindabad Force

Active
India Maoist Communist Center MCC
Active
India Muslim Brotherhood

Active
India National Democratic Front of Bodoland NDFB
Active
India National Liberation Front of Tripura NLFT
Active
India National Socialist Council of Nagaland NSCN
Active
India People's War Group PWG
Active
India United Liberation Front of Assam ULFA
Active
Indonesia Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor GPK, FRETILIN [Frente Revolutionaria Timorense de Libertacao e Independencia] Active; talks stalled
Indonesia Gerakin Aceh Merdeka

Active
Indonesia Organisasi Papua Merdek OPM
Active
Iran Al-Harakan al-Islamiya

Uncertain
Iran Ansar-e Hezbollah

Active
Iran Babak Khoramdin Organisation BKO

Iran Banner of Kaveh


Iran Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan DPIK
Active
Iran Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan

Uncertain
Iran Fadayan - Majority Faction


Iran Fadayan - Minority Faction


Iran Freedom Movement of Iran FMI

Iran Iran Liberation Front


Iran Kurdish Communist Party of Iran, Committee of the Revolutionary Toilers of Iranian Kordestan KOMALA [Komala-ye Shoreshgari-ye Zahmat Keshan-e Kordestan-e Iran] Active
Iran Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran KDP
Active
Iran Lahkar-iJhangi

Active
Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, People's Mujahedin MEK/MKO, PMOI
Active
Iran National Democratic Front

Active
Iran National Democratic Front of Hedayatollah Matin-Daftari

Active
Iran National Front

Active
Iran National Liberation Army of Iran (Militant wing of MEK) NLA
Active
Iran National Resistance Movement of Iran


Iran Paykar


Iran Tudeh


Iraq Al-Dawa al-Islamiya

Active
Iraq Communist Party militia


Iraq Iranian Democratic Party of Kurdistan KDPI

Iraq Islamic Movement of Kurdistan IMK

Iraq Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP
Active
Iraq Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK
Active
Iraq Socialist Party militia


Iraq Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution


Iraq Supreme Council for the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Badr Corps SCIRI
Active
Iraq Turcoman Front Militia


Israel Abu Nidal Organization ANO
Active
Israel Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine DFLP
Active
Israel Fatah Uprising

Active
Israel Gush Emunim Underground


Israel Hamas

Active
Israel Islamic Jihad

Active
Israel Kach and Kahane Chai

Active
Israel May 15 Organization

Active
Israel Organization of the Armed Arab Struggle OAAS
Inactive
Israel Palestine Islamic Jihad - Shiqaqi faction PIJ
Active
Israel Palestine Liberation Front - Abu Abbas faction PLF
Active, but restrained
Israel Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP
Active
Israel Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command PFLP-GC
Active
Israel Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Command PFLP-SC
Active
Israel Popular Struggle Front PSF
Dormant
Israel Terror Against Terror TNT

Italy Autonomists

Active
Italy Hammer Skinheads Italia

Active
Italy Red Brigades BR [Brigate Rosse] Dormant
Italy Third Position
[Terza Posizione] Active
Japan Aum Shinrikyo