List of terrorist groups
Groups considered by many to be terrorist and the countries where they are/were active:
Islamist groups
- Abu Sayyaf - Philippines
- al-Qaida - international
- Ansar al-Islam - Iraq
- Armed Islamic Group - Algeria and Europe
- Hamas - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
- Harakut ul-Ansar (HUA) - Pakistan and Kashmir
- Hizballah - Lebanon
- Islamic Movement of Central Asia - Central Asia
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan
- Jemaah Islamiyah - Southeast Asia
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Egypt
- Maktab al-Khidamar - Afghanistan
- Muslim Brotherhood - international
- People Against Gangsterism and Drugs - South Africa
- Salafist Group for Call and Combat - Algeria
Front organizations
- Al Barakaat
- Benevolence International Foundation
- Global Relief Foundation
- Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
- Konsojaya Trading Company
Non-Islamist Palestinian groups
- Abu Nidal Organization - international (went by the name of Black September during the 1972 Olympics in Munich)
- Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
- Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP-Hawatmeh) - Syria/Lebanon/West Bank
- Palestine Liberation Organization - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
- PFLP-GC - Gaza Strip/West Bank/Israel
- The Popular Resistence Commities - Gaza Strip/Israel
Zionist terrorist groups
- Irgun - British mandate of Palestine (some dispute the definition of the Irgun as a terrorist group due to its avoidance of civilian casualties) - disbanded
- Jewish Defense League - United States
- Kach - Israel and United States
- Stern gang - British mandate of Palestine - disbanded
Groups in Northern Ireland
Republican
- Continuity Irish Republican Army
- Provisional Irish Republican Army
- Real Irish Republican Army
- Irish National Liberation Army
Loyalist
- Loyalist Volunteer Force
- Orange Volunteers
- Ulster Freedom Fighters
- Ulster Volunteer Force
Other separatist and anti-imperialist groups
- ETA (Basque Fatherland and Liberty) - Spain and southern France
- Front de Libération du Quebec - Canada
- Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - Turkey
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - Sri Lanka
- Los Macheteros - Puerto Rico
- Mau Mau - Kenya
- National Front for the Liberation of Corsica (FLNC) - France
Leftist groups
- Action Directe - France
- Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) - Lebanon and Armenia
- Chukaku-Ha - Japan
- Japanese Red Army (Sekigun) - Japan
- GRAPO - Spain
- Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
- Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front - Chile
- Montoneros - Argentina
- National Liberation Army - ELN in Colombia
- November 17 (17N) - Greece
- Red Army Faction (popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang) - Germany
- Red Brigades (Brigade Rosse) - Italy
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - Colombia
- Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) - Peru
- Symbionese Liberation Army - USA
- Weathermen - USA
- Zapatista National Liberation Army - Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico
Neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups
- Boeremag - South Africa
- Combat 18 - United Kingdom
- Ku Klux Klan - USA, United Kingdom
- National Socialist Movement - United Kingdom
- The Order - USA
- Organisation de l'Armée Secrète - France, Algeria
- World Church of the Creator - USA
Other terrorist groups
- The Angry Brigade - United Kingdom (anarchists)
- Army for the Liberation of Rwanda - Rwanda (Hutu emancipatory; possibly genocidal)
- Aum Supreme Truth (Aum Shinrikyo) - Japan (religious cult)
- Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia - Columbia
- Contras - Nicaragua (anti-communist)
- Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood - Yugoslavia
- Death squads - El Salvador (anti-communist)
- Earth Liberation Front - USA (extremist environmentalist) - avoids harming people or animals, but is considered by the FBI to be a terrorist group
- EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kypriakou Agonistov) - Cyprus (anti-Turkish, pro-Enosis)
- Interahamwe - Rwanda
- Revolutionary United Front - Sierra Leonean rebels
- Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the nation") - South Africa