GROUPS
UNDER SURVEILLANCE (2007)
Abdulaziz al-Muqrin
Brigades
Other names: Lions of the
Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
Other names: Fatah Revolutionary Council (
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
Other names:
African National Congress (ANC)
Other names: South African Native National Congress, Umkhonto We Sizwe (Spear
of the Nation), MK
Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB)
Other names: Afrikaner Weerstandsbewiging Boer Task Force Wen Kommando (Victory
Commando)
Afrikaner Volksfront (AV)
Other names: Afrikaner People's Front
Ahmed Abu Reesh Brigades
Other names: Abu Rish Brigades, Martyr Ahmed Abu al Reesh Brigades
Ahyaul Turaz al-Islami
Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj
Other names: ABNES
Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Al Arabiya
Al Assirat al Moustaquim
Other names: The Righteous Path
Al Badr
Other names: al-Badhr, Al Badr Mujahidin
Al Barq
Other names: Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Force Kashmir Freedom Force
Al Gama’a al Islamiyya (Islamic Group, IG)
Other names: Jamaat al-Islamiyya
Al Haramein Brigades
Other names: al Haramain Brigades
Al Ittihad al Islami (AIAI)
Other names: Islamic Union, al-Ittihad al-Islamiya, Ittihad Al Islamiya
Al Jama’a al Islamiyyah al Muqatilah bi Libya
Other names: Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Fighting Islamic Group, Libyan
Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Group
Al Jehad
Al Jehad Force
Other names: combines Muslim Janbaz Force and Kashmir Jehad Force
Al Jihad (Egyptian
Islamic Jihad)
Other names: Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Jihad Group, Islamic Jihad, Society of
Struggle
Al Mansooran
Al Mujahid Force
Al Muqrin Brigade
Al Mustafa Liberation Fighters
Al Nasreen
Al Qa'nun
Al Qaeda
Other names: al Qaida, al Qadr, "The Base", Group for the
Preservation of the Holy Sites, International Islamic Front for Jihad Against
Jews and Crusaders, Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places, Islamic
Army for the Liberation of Holy Shrines
Al Qaeda in Lebanon
Other names: The al-Qaeda organization in Lebanon/Tanzim al-Qaeda fi Lubnan;
The Supporters of al-Qaeda in Lebanon / Ansar Tanzim al-Qaeda fi Lubnan; The
Base [al-Qaeda] of Jihad in Lebanon/Qaedat al-Jihad fi Lubnan
Al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Rivers
Other names: Al-Tawhid Tawhid wal-Jihad Jama’a Tawhid wal-Jihad (the Society of
Tawhid and Jihad) Qaedat al-Jihad fi balad ar-Rafidayn (The base [Qaeda] of
Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers) Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Two Rivers
Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia
Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula
Other names: Qaedat al-Jihad in the Arabian Peninsula Al-Qaeda in the Land of the
Two Holy Places Qaedat al-Jihad in the Land of the Haramain [Two Holy Places]
The Fallujah Squadron (cell name) Al-Haramain Brigades (cell name) Al-Quds
Brigade (cell name) The
Al Sadr Militia
Al Umar Mujahideen
Other names: AuM Al-Umar-Mujahideen
Al-Fahed Al-Aswad (Black Panthers)
Al-Fatah
Other names: Victory
Al-Ghurabaa
Al-Jamaa wal Sunnah
Al-Muhajiroun
al-Nahdha
Other names: Ennahadha Islamic Liberation Party Islamic Tendency Movement (MTI)
Rennaissance
Al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQY)
Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb
(AOIM)
Other names: Formerly known as: Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic North Africa Al-Qaeda Organization in North Africa
Al-Takfir Wal-Hijra
Al-Umma
Alex Boncayao Brigade (
Alfaro Lives, Damn
It! (AVC)
Other names: Alfaro Vive, Carajo!, AVC
All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSF)
Other names: National Liberation Union for Justice in Burma (NLUJB)
All Tripura Tiger Forces
Allah Tigers
Allianca Libertadora Nacional (
Other names: Action for National Liberation, Ação Libertadora Nacional,
National Liberation Action, National Liberation Alliance
Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and
Counterterrorism
Other names: ARPCT
Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)
American Independence Group
Other names:
Anarchic Attack Groups
Other names: Anarchists Attack Team
Anatolian Federated Islamic State
Andres Castro United Front (FUAC)
Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
Other names: ALF
Ansar al Islam
Ansar al Sunna
Other names: Ansar al-Sunna, (“Defenders of the Tradition,” “Supporters of the
Tradition”) Jaish al-Ansar Jaish Ansar al-Sunna Army of al-Ansar Al-Ansar
[Note: “al-Sunna” may also be written “as-Sunna”]
Anti-Abortion Extremists
Other names: Army of God
Anti-Imperialist Territorial Nuclei (NTA)
Anti-State Justice
Other names: Antikratiki Dikeosini
Arab Commando Cell
Other names: Arab Revolutionary Cell Arab Fedayeen Cell
Arab Liberation Front
Arab Organization of 15 May
Armed Forces for
the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA)
Other names: The armed wing of MPLA was FAPLA (Armed Forces for the Liberation
of Angola).
Armed Forces of Liberia
Other names: National Democratic Party of Liberia (political arm)
Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC)
Other names: Since alliance with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), some
attacks are attributed to RUF/AFRC.
Armed French Islamic Front
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Armed Revolutionary Left
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
(ASALA)
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR)
Other names: Interahamwe, Former Armed Forces (ex-FAR)
Army of Ansar al-Sunna
Other names: ansar al sunna
Army of Islam
Other names: Jaish al-Islam; Jaysh al-Islam
Army of the Mujahedin
Aryan Brotherhood (AB)
Aryan Nations
Other names: Church of Jesus Christ Christian
Aryan Republican Army
Asbat al Ansar
Other names: Osbat al-Ansar The League of Ansar [Supporters] The Partisans’
League Jama’at al-Noor (an offshoot group of Asbat al-Ansar)
Asif Raza Commandoes
Aum Shinrikyo
Other names: Aum Shinrikyo (means "teaching the supreme truth" on the
"powers of destruction and creation in the universe.") Aleph (“To
Start Anew”) new name of group as of 2000 Aum Divine Wizard Association (name
of organization prior to Aum Shinrikyo) Aum Supreme
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)
Other names: AUC, United Self-Defense Forces Group of Colombia
Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA)
Other names: Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)
AZF
Babbar Khalsa International
Balik-Islam
Other names: reverters, Balik Islam Group
Baluch People's Liberation Front (BPLF)
Baluch Students Organisation (BSO)
Baluch Students' Organistaion - Awami (BSO-A)
Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA)
Other names: Balochistan Liberation Army, Baloch Liberation Army, Baluch
Liberation Army
Bandera Roja (Red Flag -
Barisan Revolusi Nasional (
Other names: National Revolutionary Front
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
Other names: Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) Basque Homeland and Freedom
Bayat al-Imam
Other names: alternative spellings: Beyyet al-Imam, Bayyat al-Imam
Besi Merah Putih Militia
Biplobi Communist Party
Black Bloc
Other names: Black Block
Black Cats
Black September
Black Widows
Other names: Jewel Group
Bodo Guerrillas
Other names: Bodo Security Force (BSF)
Boer Commandos
Boer Resistance Movement
Other names: Boere Weerstandbeweging
Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA)
Breton Liberation Army (ARB)
Other names: Breton Resistance Army Breton Revolutionary Army
Brotherhood of
al-Ma’unah
Other names: Al-Ma'unah Spiritual Brotherhood Al-Ma'unah
Buganda Youth Movement
Caliphate
State
Other names: Union of Islamic Communities, Anatolian Federative Islamic State
Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF)
Other names: Cholana Kangtoap Serei Cheat Kampouchea
Cameria Liberation
Army (UCC)
Other names: Ushtria Climentare e Camerise, Liberation Army of Chameria
Carlos the Jackal
Other names: Carlos Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Carlos Apparat, and Organization
of the Armed Arab Sruggle (OAAS)
Casamance Movement
of Democratic Forces
Caucasus Front
Chechen Rebels
Christian Tarok Militia movement
Chukaku Ha
Other names: Nucleus Faction Middle-Core Faction Central Core Faction Kansai
Revolutionary Army League of Revolutionary Communists - National Committee
Cinchoneros Popular Liberation Movement (MPL)
Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB)
Clara Elizabeth Ramirez Front (CERF)
Coalition for Militant Action in the Niger Delta
(COMA)
Other names: None
Comando Jaramillista Morelense 23 de Mayo
Combatant Communist Cells (CCC)
Committee of National Vigour for Peace and
Democracy (CSNPD)
Congolese National Movement (MNC)
Congolese Revolutionary Movement (MRC)
Other names: Revolutionary Movement of Congo, Movement Révoluntionaire du Congo
Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria
Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
Other names: Continuity Army Council Republican Sinn Fein
Cooperativa
Artigiana Fuoco e Affini
Other names: The Cooperative of Handmade Fire and Related Items
Crazy Gas Cannisters
Dagestan Liberation Army
Dal Khalsa
Dashmesh Regiment
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola
(FDLA)
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(DFLP)
Other names: Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP)
Democratic Revolution Committee for Zaire (CDRZ)
Dhamat Houmet
Daawa Salafia
Other names: Group Protectors of Salafist Preaching, Houmat Ed Daawa Es
Salifiya, Katibat El Ahoual, Protectors of the Salafist Predication, El-Ahoual
Battalion, Katibat El Ahouel, Houmate Ed-Daawa Es-Salafia, the Horror Squadron,
Djamaat Houmat Eddawa Essalafia, Djam
Direct Action (AD)
Djibouti Youth Movement
Dukhtaran-E-Millat
Other names: DEM
Earth
Liberation Front (ELF)
Other names: ELF
East Turkestan Islamic Movement
Other names: Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, ETIM, ETIP East Turkestan Party
East Turkistan
Information Center
Other names: ETIC
Eastern Turkistan Liberation Organization
Other names: ETLO
Egyptian Tawhid and Jihad
Other names: Tawhid wal Jihad al-Masriya (Egyptian Tawhid and Jihad), Tawhid
wal Jihad, Tawhid and Jihad, Tawhid and Jihad in Egypt
Egypt’s Mujahedeen
Enough is Enough in the Niger River
Enraged Anarchists
EOKA-B
Other names: Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston, National Organization of
Cypriot Fighters
Eritrean Islamic Movement (EIM)
Eritrean Peoples Liberationa Front (EPLF)
Other names: People's Front for Democracy and Justice
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
(EPRDF)
Fallen Angel
Falluja Squadron
Other names: Falluja Squadron in the Arabian Peninsula Al Falluja Squadron
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)
Other names: Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberacion Nacional
Fatah
Other names: The Fatah used the name Black September Organization (BSO) from
1971 to 1974 and the cover name al-Asifa (The Storm) in 1965. In the 1980s,
Force 17, the Hawari group, and security elements of the Fatah have been
involved in terrorist operations. The name
Fatah-Intifada
Other names: Abu Moussa’s Faction
First Capital Command Group
Other names: Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)
First of October Antifascist Resistance Group
(GRAPO)
Force for the Defense of Democracy
Force for the Defense of Democracy (FDD)
Forces
Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR)
Other names: Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, Army for the
Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR), Ex-FAR (Armed Forces of Rwanda), Interahamwe,
Party for the Liberation of Rwanda (PALIR) • Political Wing
Forces for National Liberation (FNL)
Other names: Forces Nationales de Liberation
Free Aceh Movement
Other names: Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) Aceh Merdeka Acheh Sumatra National
Liberation Front (ASNLF) Aceh Security Disturbance Movement (GPK) (Gerakan
Pengacau Keamanan)
Free Papua Movement (OPM)
Other names: The Willem Onde Group is a splinter group of the OPM. Organisasi
Papua Merdeka
Front for the Liberation of Air and Azaouak (FLAA)
Other names: Tuareg Rebel Movement Coordination de la Resistance Armee du Niger
(CRA) Coordination of the Armed Resistance of Niger
Front for the Liberation of Cabinda Enclave (FLEC)
Other names: Frente de Libertaco do Enclave de Cabinda Front for the Liberation
of the Cabinda Enclave Frente de Libertaco do Estacio de Cabinda
Front for the Liberation of Cabinda
Enclave-Renewed (FLEC-Renewed)
Front for the Liberation of Tamoust (FLT)
Other names: Tuareg Rebel Movement Coordination de la Resistance Armee du Niger
(CRA) Coordination of the Armed Resistance of Niger
Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy
(FRUD)
Other names: Front pour la Restauration de l'Unite et de la Democratie
Front of Nationalists and Integrationists (FNI)
Gerakan Mujahadeen
Islam Pattani (GMIP)
Other names: Pattani Islamic Mujahideen Movement
Global Intifada
God's Army
God's Oppressed Army
God’s Brigade
Other names: Jund Allah
Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (IBDA-C)
Other names: Islamic Union Front Islamic Raid Eastern Union Front
Group of People’s Combatant (GCP)
Other names: GCP
Group of Popular Combatants (GCP)
Other names: Grupo de Combatientes Populares, Group of People's Fighters,
People's Combatant Group
Guard of Prince Lazar
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)
Gurkha National
Liberation Front (GNLF)
HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Other names: HAMAS is an Arabic acronym for “Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya,”
meaning Islamic Resistance Movement. However, the word “hamas” means “zeal” in
Arabic.
Haqiqi Mohajir Quami Movement (MQM-H)
Other names: Spinter of the original Mohajir Quami Movement (MQM)
Harakat ul Jihad I Islami (HUJI) (Movement of
Islamic Holy War)
Harakat ul Jihad I Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
(Movement of Islamic Holy War)
Harakat ul
Mujahidin (HUM) (Movement of Holy Warriors)
Other names: Harkat-Ul-Mujahideen Harkat-Ul-Ansar Harkat-Ul-Jehad-E-Islami
Harkat ul Ansar
(HA)
Other names: Formed by merger of Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami and Harkat
ul-Mujahedin Now known as Harkat ul-Mujahideen Movement of Friends
Hezbollah (Party of God)
Other names: Hizballah, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Revolutionary Justice
Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, and Islamic Jihad for the
Liberation of Palestine
Hizb ul Mujahedin
Other names: Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment
Jamiat-ul Mujahideen Kashmiri Jamaat-i-Islami (KJI) Nassir-ul-Islam Party of
Holy Warriors
Hizb ut-Tahrir -
Western Europe
Other names: Hizb al-Tahrir, Hezb al-Tahrir, The Ideological Society
Hofstad Network
Other names: Hofstad Group, Hofstadgroup, Mujahideen of the Lowlands, Polder
Mujahideen
Holders of the Black Banner
Iduwini National
Movement for Peace and Development
Other names: Iju-Warri
Ijaw Youth
Other names: Ijaw Youth Movement
Ikhwan ul Mujahideen
Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen
Other names: Jammu and Kashmir Students Liberation Front (JKSLF) The Muslim
Brothers
Imam al-Hassan al-Basri Brigades
Informal Anarchic Federation (FAI)
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
Insurgents, terrorists, militants in Iraq
International Sikh
Youth Federation (ISYF)
Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Other names: Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), the Provos (Now almost
universally referred to as the PIRA to distinguish it from RIRA and CIRA.)
Islambouli Brigades of al Qaeda
Islamic Arab Front of Azawad (IAFA)
Other names: Tuareg Rebel Movement Coordination de la Resistance Armee du Niger
(CRA) Coordination of the Armed Resistance of Niger
Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Sites
Islamic Army in Iraq
Other names: Reformation and Jihad Front (member)
Islamic Army of Aden (IAA)
Other names: Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (AAIA)
Islamic Brigades of Pride in Egypt
Islamic Courts Union militia
Islamic Defenders Front
Other names: Fron Pembela Islam, (FPI)
Islamic Front
Other names: Islamic Front (of Kashmir ?)
Islamic Front (Trinidad and Tobago)
Other names: Waajihatul Islaamijah
Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia (IFLO)
Islamic International Brigade
Other names: International Battalion, Islamic Peacekeeping International
Brigade, Peacekeeping Battalion, The International Brigade, The Islamic
Peacekeeping Army, The Islamic Peacekeeping Brigade
Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB)
Islamic Jihad Group in Uzbekistan (IJG)
Other names: Islamic Jihad Union
Islamic Jihad Organization in Iraq
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Other names: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Renamed in 2002/03 to Islamic Party
of Turkestan
Islamic Party of Kenya
Islamic Party of Turkestan
Other names: former Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Islamic Response
Islamic State of Iraq
Other names: Al Qaeda in Iraq, Mujahideen Shura Council, The Alliance of the
mutayyebin,Islamic Army in Iraq, Mujahideen Army, Conquering Army, Ansar
al-Sunnah, Twentieth Revolution Brigades, and Iraqi Union
Islamic Students League
Italian Anarchist Black Cross
Ivorian Popular Movement of the Great West (MPIGO)
Ivory Coast Patriotic Movement (MPCI)
Jagrata Muslim Janata
Bangladesh
Jaish al-Ta’ifa al-Mansoura
Other names: Army of the Victorious Faction Army of the Victorious Sect
Jaish e Mohammed E Tanzeem(JEM)
Other names: Army of Mohammed Army of the Prophet, Mohammed Tahrik-E-Furqan
Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM)
Jamaat Ansar El Mehdi
Other names: El Mehdi Support Group
Jamaat ul Fuqra
(JF)
Other names: Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JF) or "community of the impoverished"
Jamaat ul Mujahideen (Bangladesh)
Jama’a Ansar
al-Sunnah al-Mohammediya (ASM)
Other names: Supporters of the Sunnah of Mohammed; Organization of Ansar
al-Sunnah al-Mohammediya; Supporters of the Mohammedian Sunnah; Ansar al-Sunnah
(or Ansar al-Sunna). Spelling Variations: Ansar al-Sunna al-Mohammadiya, Ansar
al-Sunnah al-Mohammadiya, Ansar al
Jamiat ul Mujahideen (JUM)
Other names: JUM
Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh
Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Force
Other names: Kashmir Freedom Force JKFF
Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
Other names: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Forum
Jammu and Kashmir National Liberation Army
Jammu and Kashmir Students Liberation Front
Janajuddha
Other names: People's War
Janatha Vimukthi
Peramuna (JVP)
Other names: People's Liberation Front (PLF) Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya
(DJV)
Japan National Youth Alliance
Japanese Red Army (JRA)
Other names: Anti-Imperialist International Brigade (AIIB) Nippon Sekigun Nihon
Sekigun
Japanese Red Army Faction (JRAF)
Other names: Sekigunha NOTE: Group was founded before, and is distinct from the
Japanese Red Army (JRA). JRA was a splinter group formed in 1972 supporting
efforts by the PFLP.
Jemaah Islamiya (JI)
Jenin Martyrs Brigade
Jihad Force
Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC)
July 20 Brigade
Jund al-Sham
Other names: (Spelling Variations): Jund al-Shem, Jund a-Shem, Jund ash-Shem,
Jund a-Sham, Jund ash-Sham
Jund al-Sham -- Ein al-Hilweh
Other names: Organization of Soldiers of the Levant; Soldiers of Syria;
Soldiers of Damascus; Soldiers of the Greater Syria; Jund al-Shem
Jundallah
Other names: Soldiers of God People’s Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMOI)
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)
Other names: JEM
Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG)
Kachin Independent
Organization (KIO)
Other names: Kachin Independent Army (KIA)
Kahane Chai (Kach)
Kamtapur Liberation Organization
Other names: KLO
Kanglei Yaol Kanba
Lup
Other names: KYKL
Kangleipak Communist
Party
Other names: KCP
Karbala Squadron
Other names: Karbala Brigade
Karen National Union (KNU)
Other names: Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) Karen National Liberaiton
Army (KNLA)
Kashmir Jehad Force
Khalistan Zindabad
Force
Other names: Khalistan Zindabad Long Live Khalistan
Khan Younes
Other names: Khan Younis Militia
Khmer Rouge
Other names: Cambodian National Unity Party (CNUP) Khmer Kraw'horm (Red Khmer)
National Army of Democratic Kampuchea (NADK) Party of Democratic Kampuchea
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
Other names: Ushtria Clirimtare E Kosoves (UCK)
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Other names: KKK, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Kumpulan Mujahidin
Malaysia (KMM)
Kurdistan Freedom Falcons
Other names: TAK, Kurdish Vengeance Brigade, Kurdistan Freedom Falcons,
Kurdistan Freedom Falcons Organization, Kurdistan Liberation Hawks
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
Other names: Iran Branch: Kuristan Free Life Party (Pjak) KONGRA-GEL Kurdistan
Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) Freedom and Democracy Congress of Kurdistan
Kurdistan People's Congress (KHK) Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan People's Defense
Force Halu Mes
Lackawanna Six
Other names:
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
(LeT)
Other names: Army of the Pure and Righteous, Lashkar-e-Toiba, LT,
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Tayiba, Army of the Pure, Laskar-I-Taiba
Lashkar-E-Taiba Pasban-E-Ahle Hadis
Lautaro Youth
Movement (MJL)
Other names: Lautaro Faction of United Popular Action Movement (MAPU/L) Lautaro
Popular Rebel Forces (FRPL)
Lebanese Armed
Revolutionary Faction (LARF)
Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Other names: Air Tigers (aviation wing) Black Tigers (suicide attack squad)
Ellalan Force Federation of Associations of Canadian Tamils (FACT) Freedom
Birds (unofficial name of female unit)
Liberians United
for Reconciliation and Democracy
Other names: LURD
Libyan Islamic
Fighting Group
Other names: Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya Libyan Fighting
Group Libyan Islamic Group Fighting Islamic Group (FIG)
Lorenzo Zelaya
Popular Revolutionary Forces (FPR-LZ)
Loyalist Volunteer
Force (LVF)
Lumumba National
Congolese Movement (MNCL)
Macheteros
(Machete Wielders)
Other names: Ejercito Popular Baricua, Baricua Popular Army, EPB Movimiento
Popular Revolucionario, Machete Wielders
Mahaz e Azadi
Other names: Jammu and Kashmir Mahaz e Azadi
Mahdi Army
Other names: Imam Mahdi Army
Mai-Mai militia
Other names: Mai-Mail rebels Mayi-Mayi
Manipur People’s
Liberation Front
Other names: MPLF
Manuel Rodriguez
Patriotic Front (FPMR)
Other names:
Maoists
Other names: Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M); United People's Front
(UPF), Maoist Rebels, Maoist Insurgents, Maoist Insurgency
Mara Salvatrucha
(MS-13)
Other names: MS-13, MS, Maras,
mareros
Maung Tai Army
(MTA)
Other names: Shan Stat Army (SSA)
Mohajir Qaumi
Movement (MQM)
Other names: Altaf Group Mohajir National Movement Mohajir Rights Movement
(MRM) MQM Haqiqi Refugee National Movement
Mohammed’s Army
(Iraq)
Other names: Jaish
Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF)
Other names: Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF), MILF Special Operations
Group (MILF-SOG)
Moro National
Liberation Front (MNLF)
Other names: Moro Liberation Front (MLF)
Moroccan Islamic
Combatant Group (GICM)
Other names: Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain, GICM
Moustarchindina
Wal Moustarchidati (MWM)
Other names: Men and Woment Who Follow the Truth (translation)
Movement for
Democracy and Development (MDD)
Movement for
Justice and Peace (MJP)
Movement for the
Actualisation of a Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)
Other names: Movement for Liberation of the Niger River Delta, Movement for
Liberation of the Niger River Delta
Movement for the
Freedom of Jerusalem
Movement for the
Liberation of Congo
Other names: Site currently under construction.
Movement for the
Liberation of the Central African People (MLPC)
Other names: Mouvement de liberation du people Centrafricain
Movement for the
National Independence of Angola (MINA)
Movement for the
Struggle of the Jordanian Islamic Resistance
Other names: Jordanian Islamic Resistance Movement Jordanian Islamic Resistance
Movement for Holy Struggle Jordanian Islamic Resistance Movement for Jihad
Jordanian Islamic Resistance Movement for Struggle Jordanian Islamic Resistance
Movement of
Nigeriens for Justice (MNJ)
Other names: Niger Movement for Justice Movement des Nigeriens pour la Justice
Tuareg rebels
Movement of the
Democratic Forces of Casamance
Other names: Mouvement des Forces
Movement of the
Niger Delta People
Movement of the
Revolutionary Left
Other names: MIR,
Movimiento
Peronista Montonero
Other names: Montoneros
Muerte a
Secuestradores (MAS)
Other names: Death to Kidnappers
Mujahedin e Khalq
Organization (MEK or MKO)
Other names: The National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA, the militant wing of
the MEK), the People’s Mujahidin of Iran (PMOI), National Council of Resistance
(NCR), Muslim Iranian Student’s Society (front organization used to garner
financial support)
Mujahideen Shura
Council (MSC)
Other names: Mujahidin’s Consultative Council,
Mujahideen Youth
Movement (MYM)
Other names: Young Mujahideen Movement (YMM), Arabic: Harakat al-Shabaab
al-Mujahideen
Muslim Army of the
Taliban
Other names: Taliban Jamiat Jaish-e-Muslimeen
Muslim Brotherhood
(MB)
Other names: Jamiat al-ikhwan al-Muslimun
Mutahida Majlis e
Amal (United Action Forum)
Muttahida Jehad
Council (MJC)
Other names: 'United Jehad Council'
Muttahida Quomi
Mahaz - MQM (A)
Other names: faction of
National Army of
Independent Kampuchea
Other names: Sihanoukists
National
Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP)
Other names: NAAWP
National Council
for the Defence of Democracy (NCDD)
National Coundil
for the Reform of Chad (CNRT)
Other names: National Committee for Recovery (NCR)
National Democratic
Alliance (NDA)
National
Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
Other names: Bodo Security Force (BdSF)
National
Democratic Party (NDP)
Other names:
National Front for
the Liberation of Angola (FNLA)
National
Liberation Army (ELN)—Colombia
National
Liberation Forces (FNL)
National
Liberation Front of Corsica
Other names: FLNC, Front de Libération Nationale de la Corse Corsican
Revolutionary Brigades The Army of National Release Corsica (ALNC)
National
Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT)
National Movement
for Reform and Development - NMRD
National Movement
of the Land of Two Rivers
National Patriotic
Front of Liberia (NPFL)
Other names: G-2 (NPFL security section)
National
Resistance of Mozambique (RENAMO)
Other names: Frente de
National Socialist
Council of Nagaland (NSCN)
National Socialist
Movement (NSM)
National Socialist
Party of Russia
Other names: None
National Union for
the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)
Other names: Union Nacional Por La Independence Totale Do Angola
Nationalist and
Integrationist Front (FNI)
Native Insurgent
Army
Other names:
Naxalites (Maoists
- India)
Other names: Naxalite Movement Maoists (India) Anti-Lin Biao Bengal-Bihar
Special Area Committee Communist Party of India (CPI) Dakshin Desh Indian
People's Front (IPF) Jana Suraksha Sangharsh Kerala Communist Party Krantikari
Budhijeevi Sangh Krantikari C
Neo-Nazi movement
Other names: See below listing broken down by country.
Nestor Paz Zamora
Commission (CNPZ)
Other names:
New Forces
Other names: New Forces Rebels, northern rebels
New People’s Army
(NPA)
Other names: Bagong Hukbong Bayan Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)
Manila Rizal Regional Committee (MRCC) National Democratic Front (NDF) Boy
Gatmaitan Command
New Red
Brigades/Communist Combatant Party (BR/PCC)
Other names:
Niger Delta
Freedom Fighters
Other names: NDDF, NDFF
Niger Delta
People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF)
Niger Delta
Vigilante (NDV) group
Nigerian Taleban
Other names: Nigerian Taliban
Ogaden National
Liberation Front (ONLF)
Other names: Somali Name:
Organization of
Armed Resistance (ORA)
Other names: Tuareg Rebel Movement Coordination de la Resistance Armee
Organization of
the Armed Arab Struggle (OAAS)
Other names:
Palestine
Liberation Front (PLF)
Other names: Front for the Liberation of Palestine (FLP)
Palipehutu
Other names: Party of the Liberation of the Hutu People
Patriotic
Committee for Venezuela
Patriotic Movement
for the Rebirth of the CAR People
Patriot’s Council
Other names: Minnesota Patriot’s Council
Pattani United
Liberation Organization (PULO)
Other names: Caddan Army, PULO Army Command Council (MPTP), PULO 88
People Against
Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
People's Army for
the Restoration of the Republic and Democracy (APRD)
People's
Liberation Army (PLA)
People's
Revolutionary Army (ERP)
People's
Revolutionary Militia (PRM)
People's War Group
(PWG)
Other names: The Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) (People’s WAR) –
CPI-ML (PW) Naxalites Maoists (India) Anti-Lin Biao Bengal-Bihar Special Area
Committee Communist Party of India (CPI) Mahila Sravanthi Mazdoor Kisan
Sangathan Mazdoor Kisan Sangram
People’s
Liberation Army (China)
People’s
Liberation Army (India)
Other names: PLA
People’s
Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak
Other names: Prepak
Popular Army for
the Restoration of Democracy
Popular Forces 25
April (FP-25)
Popular Front for
Armed Resistance (PFAR)
Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine–General Command (PFLP-GC)
Popular Liberation
Army (EPL)
Other names: Ejercito Popular
Popular Movement
for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA)
Other names: The armed wing of MPLA was FAPLA (Armed Forces for the Liberation
of Angola). Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
Popular
Palestinian Resistance Force
Popular Resistance
Movement in the Land of Two Migrations (PRMLTM)
Other names: Somali Union of Islamic Courts militias
Popular
Revolutionary Army
Other names: Ejercito Popular Revolucionario, EPR, Revolutionary Popular
Democratic Party (PDPR), Party of the Poor (PROCUP-Pdlp)
Proletarian
Combatant Groups (NPC)
Provisional Irish
Republican Army (PIRA)
Other names: Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), the Provos (Now almost
universally referred to as the PIRA to distinguish it from Real IRA and
Continuity IRA.)
Purbo Banglar
Communist Party (PBCP)
Rajah Solaiman
Movement
Other names: RSM, linked to Balik-Islam and the Abu Sayyaf Group.
Rajneeshee Cult
Other names: Rajneeshism
Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
Other names: Sangh (National Volunteer Corps), RSS
Real Irish
Republican Army (RIRA)
Other names: True IRA
Red Army Faction
(RAF)
Other names: Baader-Meinhof Group, Rote Armee Faktion
Red Brigades (BR)
Other names:
Reform and Jihad
Front
Other names: United Jihad Council (Members: Islamic Army of Iraq, Mujahideen
Army, Ansar al-Sunna)
Revenge of the
Trees (ROTT)
Other names: ROTT
Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Other names: FARC, FARC-EP (Army of the People) Fuerzas Armadas
Revolutionary Army
for the Liberation of Northern Niger (RALNN)
Other names: Tuareg Rebel Movement Coordination de la Resistance Armee
Revolutionary
Front for the Independence of East Timor (FRETILIN)
Other names: Armed Forces for the Liberation of East Timor (FALANTIL) National
Council of Maubere (Timorese) Resistance
Revolutionary
November 13 Movement (MR-13)
Revolutionary
Nuclei
Other names: Revolutionary Cells
Revolutionary
Organization 17 November (17 November)
Other names: November 17 N-17
Revolutionary
People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
Other names: Devrimci So, Revolutionary Left, Dev
Revolutionary
Popular Struggle (ELA)
Other names: Epanastatikos Laikos Agonas; Popular Revolutionary Struggle; June
78; Organization of Revolutionary Internationalist Solidarity; Liberation
Struggle; Revolutionary People's Solidarity, a splinter group was formed in
1998 called "Revolutionary Cells"; Peop
Revolutionary
Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR)
Revolutionary
Struggle
Other names:
Revolutionary
United Front (RUF)
Ricardo Franco
Front (RFF)
Other names:
Riyadus-Salikhin
Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (RSRSBCM)
Other names: Riyadh-as-Saliheen, Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage
Battalion of Shahids (Martyrs), Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage
Battalion, the Sabotage and Military Surveillance Group of the Riyadh
al-Salihin Martyrs
Rwandan Patriotic
Front (RPF)
Other names: Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA)
Salifiya Jihadiya
Other names:
Secret
Organization of al-Qaeda in Europe
Sendero Luminoso
(Shining Path, or SL)
Other names: Shining Path,
SHAC
Other names: Stop
Sikh Extremists
Other names: Sikh Movement Akali Dal All-India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF)
Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan (BTKF) Council of Khalistan Dal Khalsa
Dashmesh (10th Regiment) International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) Khalistan
Armed Forces (KAF) Khali
Sipah e Mohammed
Pakistan (SMP)
Other names: Army of
Sipah I Sahaba
Pakistan (SSP)
Other names: Sipah e Sahaba Pakistan Anjuman Sipah-e-Sahaba Millat-e-Islamia
Pakistan
South-West Africa
People's Organization (SWAPO)
Other names: Ovamboland People's Congress - predecessor of SWAPO founded in
1958. PLAN - Swapo's armed wing
Special Purpose
Islamic Regiment
Other names: Islamic Regiment of Special Meaning, the al-Jihad-Fisi-Sabililah
Special Islamic Regiment, the Islamic Special Purpose Regiment
Special Purpose
Islamic Regiment (SPIR)
Students Islamic
Movement of India
Other names: SIMI
Sudan Liberation
Movement and Army (SLM) (SLA)
Other names: SLM, SLA
Sudan Peoples
Liberation Army (SPLA)
Other names: Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement
Support to
Ocalan--The Hawks of Thrace
Supreme Islamic
Courts Council
Other names: Conservative Council of Islamic Courts, Islamic Courts Union,
Joint Islamic Courts
Symbionese Liberation
Army (SLA)
Taliban
Other names: Taleban, Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement
Tamil Nadu
Liberation Army
Other names: TNLA
Tamil National
Retrieval Troops
Other names: TNRT
Tanzim Qaedat
al-Jihad
Other names: Organisation for the Base of Jihad (translation)
Tawhid and Jihad
Other names: Al-Tawhid Tawhid wal-Jihad Jama’a Tawhid wal-Jihad (the Society of
Tawhid and Jihad) Qaedat al-Jihad fi balad ar-Rafidayn (The base [Qaeda] of
Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers) Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Two Rivers
Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia
Tehreek e Jaferia
Pakistan (TJP)
Other names:
Tehreek e Nafaz e
Shariat e Mohammadi (TNSM)
Other names: 'Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Laws' Tahrik Nifaz
Shariat I-Mohammadi
Tehrik e Nifaz e
Fiqar Jafaria
Tehrik-ek-Hurriyat
(G group)
Other names: Tehrik e Hurriat e Kashmir
The Committee for
the Security of the Roads
The Corsican
People’s Army (APC)
The Holy Jihad
Brigades
Other names: al-Jihad al-Muqaddis Alternative Translations: The Sacred Jihad
Brigades, The Holy Land Jihad Brigades, The Jerusalem Jihad Brigades
The Hungarian
Guard
Other names: The Magyar Garda
The Martyr
Abdullah Azzam Brigades of the Al-Qaeda Organization
Other names: The Martyr Abdullah Azzam Brigades of the al-Qaeda Organization in
the Land of Shem and the Land of Canaan.
Tunisian Combat
Group
Other names: Groupe Combattant Tunisien (GCT), Jama'a Combattante Tunisien
(JCT); Tunisian Combatant Group
Tunisian Combatant
Group (TCG)
Tupac Amaru
Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
Turkish Revenge
Brigades (TIT)
Other names: Turk Intikam Tugayi
Uganda Democratic
Freedom Movement
Ulster Defense
Association/Ulster Volunteer Force (UDA/UVF)
Other names: Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)
Unified Forces of
Caucasian Mujaheddin
Union of Congolese
Patriots (UPC)
Union of Forces
for Change (UFC)
Union of
Republican Forces (UFR)
United Forces for
Democracy and Development
Other names: UFDD
United Front for
Change (FUC)
Other names: Front uni pour le Changement Démocratique au Tchad, United Front
for Change, United Front for the Democratic Change of Chad, United Front for
Democratic Change, Chadian United Front for Democratic Change
United Liberation
Front of Assam
Other names: ULFA UFLA
United Movement of
Liberia (ULIMO)
Other names: United Liberation Front for Democracy in Liberia ULIMO-J (Gen.
Roosevelt Johnson - ethnic Krahns) ULIMO-K (Section Kromah - ethnic Mandingos)
LURD
United National
Liberation Front
Other names: UNLF
United Wa State
Army (UWSA)
Other names: Burmese Communist Party
Vigorous Burmese
Student Warriors
Virginia Jihad
Network
Other names: al-Qaeda sleeper cell
Willem Onde Group
Other names: a splinter group of the Free Papua Movement (OPM)
World Church of
the Creator
Other names: The Creativity Movement
Yarmuk
Other names: Kabardino-Balkarian Islamic Jamaat Yarmuk
Yoruba Ooduna
People's Congress (YOPC)
Zapatistas
Other names: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) Zapatista Army of
National Liberation
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