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The Soviet Union and some communist states have sponsored international terrorism on numerous occasions, especially during the Cold War. [1] NATO and the Italian, German and British governments saw violence in the form of "communist fighting organizations" as a serious threat.
The Syrian government has directly accused the United States of sponsoring terrorism in Syria. [166] The United States government was also criticized by Iran for its silence following the beheading of a child by the Islamist group Nour al-Din al-Zenki, a group that is a recipient of US military aid and is accused of many war crimes by Amnesty ...
US Department of State's Foreign Terrorist Organizations, released April 8, 2008 Fact Sheet, upon which this article is based, which also contains the legal references. US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 'What you need to know about U.S. Sanctions' European Union list of terrorist groups and individuals, 2007
Denial of duty-free treatment of goods exported to the United States; Authority to prohibit any U.S. citizen from engaging in a financial transaction with a terrorist-list government without a Treasury Department license; and; Prohibition of Defense Department contracts above $100,000 with companies controlled by terrorist-list states. [9]
The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and former national governments, and inter-governmental organizations. Such designations have often had a significant effect on the groups' activities.
The International Department, however, tasks the KGB, GRU, and 10th Department of the General Staff to provide training and other support. They also use proxies, in the form of allies such as Libya, South Yemen, and Cuba, which directly support revolutionary groups. The policy of the Soviet Union toward nihilistic terrorist groups remains unclear.
Though US President Dwight D. Eisenhower was also infuriated at the invasion and had successfully brought an end to end to Suez Crisis by pressuring the invading forces to withdraw from Egypt by early 1957, [108] the United States continued to maintain good relations with Britain, France and Israel and sought to limit Soviet ally Nasser's ...
State-sponsored terrorism is terrorist violence carried out with the active support of national governments provided to violent non-state actors.States can sponsor terrorist groups in several ways, including but not limited to funding terrorist organizations, providing training, supplying weapons, providing other logistical and intelligence assistance, and hosting groups within their borders.