Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Released by the Office for Counterterrorism
U.S. Department of State
October 8, 1997


     Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
     Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
     Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
     Aum Shinrikyo (Aum)
     Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA)
     Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Hawatmeh Faction (DFLP)
     HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
     Harakat ul-Ansar (HUA)
     Hizballah (Party of God)
     Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group, IG)
     Japanese Red Army (JRA)
     al-Jihad
     Kach
     Kahane Chai
     Khmer Rouge
     Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
     Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
     Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front Dissidents (FPMR/D)
     Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO)
     National Liberation Army (ELN)
     Palestine Islamic Jihad-Shaqaqi Faction (PIJ)
     Palestine Liberation Front-Abu Abbas Faction (PLF)
     Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
     Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
     Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
     Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17 November)
     Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
     Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)
     Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
     Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)