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Hamas
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate. Its membership is mostly composed of Arabs but also includes people from other ethnic groups. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military targets of the U.S. and its allies; such as the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, the USS Cole bombing, and the September 11 attacks. It has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations and over two dozen countries ar
Wagner Group
Russian mercenary
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Militant Tamil organisation in Sri Lanka (1976-2009)
Kurdistan Workers' Party
Kurdish nationalist and separatist armed organization
Al-Shabaab
Horn of Africa-based Islamist movement affiliated with al-Qaeda
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Palestinian Islamist militant organization
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Sunni Islamist militant faction during the Syrian Civil War
incel
An incel ( ; a portmanteau of "involuntary celibate") is a member of an online subculture of mostly male and heterosexual people who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one. They often blame, objectify, and denigrate women and girls as a result. The term inspired a subculture that rose to prominence during the 2010s, after being influenced by and associated with misogynist terrorists such as Elliot Rodger and Alek Minassian.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is a Pakistani Islamist Jihadist militant organization driven by a Salafi jihadist ideology. The organisation's primary stated objective is to merge the whole of Kashmir with Pakistan. It also seeks the destruction of India, Hinduism, and Judaism through jihad. It was founded in 1985–1986 by Hafiz Saeed, Zafar Iqbal Shehbaz, Abdullah Azzam and several other Islamist mujahideen with funding from Osama bin Laden during the Soviet–Afghan War. It has been designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations and numerous other countries and been responsible for terrorist atta
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Pan-Islamist and fundamentalist organization
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Irish republican paramilitary group, 1969–2005
Aum Shinrikyo
Japanese cult and terrorist organization
Caucasus Emirate
former jihadist organisation
Balochistan Liberation Army
separatist group in balochistan
Abu Sayyaf
Jihadist militant group in the southwestern Philippines
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
military wing of the Palestinian Hamas organization
Pakistani Taliban
islamist militant organization operating along the Durand Line
Jaish-e-Mohammed
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is a Deobandi-jihadist Pakistani militant group active in Kashmir. The group's primary motive is to separate Jammu and Kashmir from India and integrate it into Pakistan.
al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
Palestinian armed organization
Jemaah Islamiyah
Southeast Asian salafist yihadist organization
al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Islamist militant organization in Northwest Africa and the Sahel
Irish National Liberation Army
Irish republican socialist paramilitary group
Haqqani network
Afghan guerilla insurgent group
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
militant Islamist organization
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command
Syrian-based Palestinian nationalist organisation
Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Egyptian Islamist militant group active since the late 1970s
Ulster Volunteer Force
Ulster loyalist militant group formed in 1966
Turkistan Islamic Party
Islamic extremist organization in China
Ansar al-Islam
jihadist political party in Iraq
Kach
Kach () was a radical Orthodox Jewish, religious Zionist political party in Israel, existing from 1971 to 1994. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971 based on his Jewish-Orthodox-nationalist ideology (subsequently dubbed Kahanism), the party won a single seat in the Knesset in the 1984 elections, after several electoral failures. However, it was barred from participating in the next elections in 1988 under the revised Knesset Elections Law banning parties that incited racism. After Kahane's assassination in 1990 the party split, with Kahane Chai ("Kahane Lives") breaking away from the main Kach
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Greek urban guerrilla organization (1975–2002)
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front
Turkish Marxist–Leninist party, founded in 1978 and renamed in 1994; classified as a terrorist group by Japan, Turkey, US, UK, and EU
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
Islamist terrorist organization
Ansar Dine
militant Islamist organization in Mali
Real Irish Republican Army
Irish republican militant group split from the Provisional IRA in 1997
Atomwaffen Division
international Neo-Nazi terrorist network
Ulster Defence Association
paramilitary and terrorist group
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement
Jundallah
militant Sunni organization in Iran
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) was a Deobandi militant organization that was driven by a Takfiri anti-Shia ideology which operated in Pakistan, while being based in Southern Afghanistan. LeJ was an offshoot of anti-Shia party Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). LeJ was founded by former SSP activists such as Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori, and Ghulam Rasool Shah. LeJ operated in Pakistan and Southern Afghanistan until 2024.
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (; HUM) is a Pakistan-based Islamist jihadist group operating primarily in Kashmir. The group had links to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar.
People's Defence Forces
militia of the PKK
Abu Nidal Organization
Palestinian terrorist group
Kurdistan Freedom Falcons
militant Kurdish nationalist group in Turkey
Russian Imperial Movement
Russian paramilitary organization
Cumann na mBan
Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation
Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
Islamist fundamentalist organization in Pakistan and Bangladesh
Indian Mujahideen
Islamist terror organization in India
Ansaru
The Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa ( '), better known as Ansaru and less commonly called al-Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel''', is an Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist militant organisation originally based in the northeast of Nigeria. Originally a faction of Boko Haram, the group announced in 2012 that it had pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and was independent. Despite this, Ansaru and other Boko Haram factions continued to work closely together until the former increasingly declined and stopped its insurgent activities in 2013. The group was revived in 2020, and has
Babbar Khalsa
Sikh organisation
Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin
militant jihadist organisation
Loyalist Volunteer Force
former Ulster loyalist paramilitary group
Al-Mourabitoun
African militant jihadist organization
Jund al-Aqsa
islamist militia in Syria
Ansar al-Sharia
Tunisian organization
Ansar al-Sharia
Salafist jihadist group in Libya
Islamic Jihad Union
Militant Islamist organization in northwest Pakistan
Assembly of the Helpers of Sunnah
Iraqi Sunni insurgent group – 2003 to 2007
Sipah-e-Sahaba
Sunni Islamist organisation in Pakistan