Foreign terrain organizations

The Depanment of State regularly publishes lists of oreanizations and movements deemed to be foreign terrain organizations (FT0s). Cowin Repons on Trnor:vn 2017 designated the following OIMIALIT101.1 to be FTOs:

  • Azzam Brigades (AAB) A
  • bu Sayyaf Group (ASG) .a1-
  • Agra Manyn Brigade (.442113) .
  • gnat al-Dine (.4kn) .
  • gnat al-Islam (AX)
  • Amur al-Sharia in Benehari (AAS-B)
  • Amur al-Sharia in Damah (LAS-D) A
  • mur al-Sharia in Tunisia (AAS-I)
  • Anny of Islam (A0I)
  • Astral al- Azar- (AAA)
  • .gum Shimikyo (ACM)
  • Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
  • Boko Haim BFI)
  • Communist Party of PhilippineNew People’s Aimy (CPRNPA)
  • Continuity Irish Republican Amy’ (CIRA)
  • Gama’a al-Islantyya (IG)
  • Hangs Haqqani Nem& (HQN)
  • Hanlon ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HOD Harakat (Hull-B)
  • Harakat ul-Mujabideen (HUM)
  • Hizballah Hizbul hlujahedeen (FDA)
  • Indian Mujahedeen (al) Islamic Jihad Union (UL)
  • Islamic Movement of lizbekinan (DM)
  • Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
  • (ISIS) Islamic State’s Khorasan Province (ISIS-K)
  • ISIL-Libya ISIS Sinai Province (ISIS-SP)
  • Jainism Anunal Mu:lit:Una Fi Biladis-Sudan (Amara)
  • faish-e-MaerInied (WS)
  • Jayth RijalAI-Tariq Al-Naqshabandi (JRIN’)
  • Jemaah Antharut Tauhid
  • (JAI) Jennals Islamiya (11)
  • Jmdallsla Kahane Chai Kata’ib Hithallah (KH)
  • Kurdistan porkers’ Party (PICK)
  • L rshIcar e-Tafliba (Lel)
  • Lashkn i Pisani
  • (Li) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Edam
  • (LITE) Mujahi.li” Shun Council in the Environs of Jerusalem
  • (MSC) Al-Mulathainun Battalion
  • (AMB) National Liberation Amy
  • (EI-N) Al-Nusrah Front
  • (ANF) Palestine Islamic Jihad (Pt)
  • Palestine Liberation Front -Abu Abbas Faction (PLF)
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PELP)
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Cronin:I (PFLP-GC) (AQ)
  • .al-Qiida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
  • .al-Qiida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)
  • .al-Qiida in the Islamic Nlitehreb (.4.QM)
  • Real IRA (RIBA)
  • Revolutionary Aimed Forces of Colcmbia (FARC)
  • Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party.Front (DHKPC)
  • Revolutionary Strunk (RS)
  • Al-Shabaab (AS)
  • Shining Path (SL)
  • Telink-e Taliban Pakistan (17P)

 

Discussion Questions

  1. How political is the decision to place a group on the FTO list?
  2. What factors would you use to place groups on the FTO list?
  3. Should all politically violent groups be placed on the FTO list?”