Organizations designated as terrorist by the United States

Salafi jihadist militant Sunni Islamist group

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

The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Zaydi revivalist and Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydis, whose namesake leadership is drawn largely from the al-Houthi family. The group has been a central player in Yemen's civil war, drawing widespread international condemnation for its human rights abuses, including targeting civilians and using child soldiers. The movement is designated as a terrorist organization by some countries. The Houthis are backed by Iran, and they are widely considered part

Militant Tamil organisation in Sri Lanka (1976-2009)

Kurdish nationalist and separatist armed organization

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known domestically as Sepah or Pasdaran and internationally as Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is a multi-service primary force of the Iranian Armed Forces. It consists of five service branches: Ground Forces, Aerospace Force, Navy, Quds Force, and Basij. It is led by a commander-in-chief, who is appointed by and reports to the Supreme Leader of Iran.

Colombian guerrilla movement

Horn of Africa-based Islamist movement affiliated with al-Qaeda

Syrian islamist organization

Palestinian Islamist militant organization

Sunni Islamist militant faction during the Syrian Civil War

communist organization labeled as a terrorist group in Peru

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 (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

former jihadist organisation

The ' (), formally ' (), is a paramilitary volunteer militia within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and one of its five branches. An individual member is called basiji in the Persian language.

Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unit

separatist group in balochistan

branch of the Islamic State operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Jihadist militant group in the southwestern Philippines

The Sinaloa Cartel is a large and powerful drug trafficking transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, that specializes in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering.

military wing of the Palestinian Hamas organization

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.

islamist militant organization operating along the Durand Line

insurgent military group in Colombia

Mara Salvatrucha (; ), commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Angeles area. Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization. MS-13 has a longtime rivalry with the 18th Street gang.

Palestinian armed organization

Southeast Asian salafist yihadist organization

Islamist militant organization in Northwest Africa and the Sahel

Armenian nationalist militant organization active from 1975 to the early 1990s

Afghan guerilla insurgent group

Syrian-based Palestinian nationalist organisation

militant Islamist organization

nordic nazist movement and party

jihadist political party in Iraq

criminal syndicate in México

armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines

The Popular Mobilization Forces, also known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), is an Iranian-backed paramilitary umbrella group that operates within Iraq. Although formally and legally part of the Iraqi Armed Forces and reporting directly to the prime minister, PMF leaders act independently from state control, and in practice, answer to the supreme leader of Iran.

Turkish Marxist–Leninist party, founded in 1978 and renamed in 1994; classified as a terrorist group by Japan, Turkey, US, UK, and EU

Greek urban guerrilla organization (1975–2002)

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

militant Islamist organization in Mali

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel, also known as CJNG, is a Mexican criminal syndicate based in Jalisco founded and headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, commonly known as El Mencho, until he was killed by the Mexican Army in 2026. The cartel has been characterized by extreme violence and public relations campaigns. Though the CJNG is known for diversifying into various criminal rackets, drug trafficking remains its most profitable activity. The cartel has been noted for cannibalizing some victims during the training of new sicarios or members, as well as using drones and rocket-propelled grenades to attack enemies.

Irish republican militant group split from the Provisional IRA in 1997

radical Sunni jihadist group in Iraq

Shia Islamist militant group based in Iraq

political party and militant group in Iran

underground political party in the Philippines

Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement

militant Sunni organization in Iran

drug trafficking group of Venezuela Armed Forces

criminal group based in Tamaulipas

Pakistani militant organization

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 (; HUM) is a Pakistan-based Islamist jihadist group operating primarily in Kashmir. The group had links to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar.

Russian paramilitary organization

militant Kurdish nationalist group in Turkey

Iraqi Shi'a paramilitary group

Palestinian terrorist group