The CIA World Factbook Edition 2020 Terrorism

Terrorist group(s) In 9 editions of 36.

Terrorist group(s) was published in 9 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 2017 to 2025. The 2020 edition carries it in 71 entries, in its Terrorism section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2020 edition
71
the first edition with it
2017
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Terrorist group(s)” (2020 to 2025), “Terrorist groups - foreign based” (2017 to 2019) and “Terrorist groups - home based” (2017 to 2019).

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Africa

21 entries

Algeria

  • al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) – Algeria;
  • al-Mulathamun Battalion (al-Mourabitoun) (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix T

Benin

al-Qa’ida (Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimeen); Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Burkina Faso

  • Ansarul Islam;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in the Greater Sahara;
  • al-Mulathamun Battalion (al-Mourabitoun);
  • Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Cameroon

  • Boko Haram; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Chad

  • Boko Haram; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – Central Arica (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Cote d'Ivoire now Cote d'Ivoire

  • al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Djibouti

  • al-Shabaab (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Egypt

  • Army of Islam;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – Sinai Province;
  • Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem;
  • al-Qa’ida (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Ethiopia

  • al-Shabaab (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Kenya

  • al-Shabaab; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Libya

  • Ansar al-Sharia groups;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – Libya;
  • al-Mulathamun Battalion (al-Mourabitoun);
  • al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Mali

  • Ansar al-Dine;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in the Greater Sahara;
  • Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin;
  • al-Mulathamun Battalion (al-Mourabitoun) (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Morocco

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) (2020)

Mozambique

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham - Central Africa/Mozambique (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Niger

  • Boko Haram;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in the Greater Sahara;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa;
  • Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin;
  • al-Mulathamun Battalion (al-Mourabitoun) (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Nigeria

  • Boko Haram;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – West Africa;
  • Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis-Sudan (Ansaru) (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Somalia

  • al-Shabaab; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – Somalia (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Tanzania

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham - Central Africa (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Tunisia

  • Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) network in Tunisia;
  • al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Uganda

  • al-Shabaab; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham - Central Africa (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Asia

12 entries

Afghanistan

  • Haqqani Taliban Network;
  • Harakat ul-Mujahidin;
  • Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami;
  • Islamic Jihad Union;
  • Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham-Khorasan Province;
  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Jaish-e-Mohammed;
  • Jaysh al Adl (Jundallah);
  • Lashkar i Jhangvi;
  • Lashkar-e Tayyiba;
  • al-Qa’ida;
  • al-Qa'ida in the Indian Subcontinent;
  • Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix T

Azerbaijan

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Bangladesh

  • Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in Bangladesh;
  • al-Qa'ida;
  • al-Qa'ida in the Indian Subcontinent (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

India

  • Harakat ul-Mujahidin;
  • Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami;
  • Hizbul Mujahideen;
  • Indian Mujahedeen;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – India;
  • Jaish-e-Mohammed;
  • Lashkar-e Tayyiba;
  • al-Qa’ida;
  • al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Japan

  • Aum Shinrikyo (AUM/Aleph) (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Maldives

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Nepal

  • Indian Mujahedeen (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Pakistan

  • Haqqani Network;
  • Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami;
  • Harakat ul-Mujahidin;
  • Hizbul Mujahideen;
  • Indian Mujahedeen;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham-Khorasan;
  • Islamic State of ash-Sham – India;
  • Islamic State of ash-Sham – Pakistan;
  • Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan;
  • Jaish-e-Mohammed;
  • Jaysh al Adl (Jundallah);
  • Lashkar i Jhangvi;
  • Lashkar-e Tayyiba;
  • Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan;
  • al-Qa’ida;
  • al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Russia

  • Aum Shimrikyo (AUM/Aleph);
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – Caucasus Province (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Sri Lanka

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Tajikistan

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Uzbekistan

  • Islamic Jihad Union; Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Europe

18 entries

Albania

  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix T

Austria

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Belgium

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Bulgaria

Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Denmark

Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

European Union

  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS);
  • al-Qa'ida (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

France

  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham;
  • al-Qa'ida (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Germany

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force; Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Greece

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS); Revolutionary Struggle (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Ireland

  • Continuity Irish Republican Army; New Irish Republican Army (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Italy

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (2020)

Netherlands

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Portugal

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) (2019)

Spain

  • Basque Fatherland and Liberty (disbanded);
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS);
  • al-Qa’ida (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Sweden

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Switzerland

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) (2019)

United Kingdom

  • Continuity Irish Republican Army;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham;
  • New Irish Republican Army (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Middle East

11 entries

Bahrain

  • al-Ashtar Brigades; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Gaza Strip

  • Army of Islam;
  • Abdallah Azzam Brigades;
  • al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade;
  • HAMAS;
  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS)-Sinai Province;
  • Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem;
  • Palestine Islamic Jihad;
  • Palestine Liberation Front;
  • PFLP-General Command;
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Iran

  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Jaysh al Adl (Jundallah);
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party;
  • al-Qa’ida (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Iraq

  • Ansar al-Islam;
  • Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq;
  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham;
  • Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshabandi;
  • Kata'ib Hizballah;
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Israel

  • Kahane Chai;
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine;
  • Palestinian Islamic Jihad (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Lebanon

  • Abdallah Azzam Brigades;
  • al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade;
  • Asbat al-Ansar;
  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Hizballah;
  • al-Nusrah Front (Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham);
  • Palestine Liberation Front;
  • PFLP-General Command;
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Saudi Arabia

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham;
  • al-Qa’ida;
  • al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Syria

  • Abdallah Azzam Brigades;
  • Ansar al-Islam;
  • Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq;
  • Hizballah;
  • Hurras al-Din;
  • Islamic Jihad Union;
  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- Qods Force;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham;
  • Kata'ib Hizballah;
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party;
  • Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem;
  • al-Nusrah Front (Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham);
  • al-Qa'ida;
  • Palestine Liberation Front;
  • PFLP-General Command;
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Turkey now Turkiye

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – Turkey;
  • Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan;
  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party;
  • al-Qa'ida;
  • Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

West Bank

  • Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade;
  • HAMAS;
  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Kahane Chai;
  • Palestine Islamic Jihad;
  • Palestine Liberation Front;
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Yemen

  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham - Yemen;
  • al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

North America

2 entries

Canada

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

United States

  • Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Qods Force;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham;
  • al-Qa'ida (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Oceania

1 entry

Australia

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

South America

3 entries

Colombia

  • National Liberation Army; Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Peru

  • Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Venezuela

  • National Liberation Army; Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Southeast Asia

3 entries

Indonesia

Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (aka Jemaah Anshorut Daulah); Jemaah Islamiyah (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Malaysia

  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS); Jemaah Islamiyah (2019)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Philippines

  • Abu Sayyaf Group;
  • Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army;
  • Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham – East Asia (ISIS-EA) in the Philippines (2020)

note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix-T

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2020, “Terrorist group(s)”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/terrorist-group-s/2020.

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