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Anti-Bolshevik groups, clergy, rival socialists, counter-revolutionaries, peasants, and dissidents ... which were waged in Soviet Russia and many other countries ...
Among the countries that publish a list of designated terrorist organizations, some have a clear established procedure for listing and delisting, and some are opaque. The Berghof Foundation argues that opaque delisting conditions reduce the incentive for the organization to abandon terrorism, while fuelling radicalism. [377]
The Red Army Faction (RAF, German: [ɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ⓘ; German: Rote Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoː.tə aʁˈmeː fʁakˌt͡si̯oːn] ⓘ), [a] also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (German: Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe, Baader-Meinhof-Bande, German: [ˈbaːdɐ ˈmaɪ̯nˌhɔf ˈɡʁʊpə] ⓘ), was a West German far-left militant group founded in 1970 and active ...
The term terrorism became increasingly used for acts of political violence from the 1840s onwards. [41] Anarchism, often in league with rising nationalism, was the most prominent ideology linked with terrorism. [42] Attacks by various anarchist groups led to the assassination of a Russian Tsar and a U.S. President.
The Black September Organization (BSO) (Arabic: منظمة أيلول الأسود, romanized: Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad) was a Palestinian militant organization [1] founded in 1970. Besides other actions, the group was responsible for the assassination of the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tal, and the Munich massacre, in which eleven ...
e. Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) is a designation for non-United States-based organizations deemed by the United States secretary of state, in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (INA), to be involved in what US authorities define as terrorist activities. Most of the organizations on the list are ...
The following is a list of alleged and confirmed attacks carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq organization between 2006 and 2012: . The 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings were a series of attacks that occurred when five car bombs exploded across Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, on 18 April 2007, killing nearly 200 people. [1]
The Khmer Rouge (/ k ə ˌ m ɛər ˈ r uː ʒ /; French: [kmɛʁ ʁuʒ]; Khmer: ខ្មែរក្រហម, Khmêr Krâhâm [kʰmae krɑːhɑːm]; lit. ' Red Khmer ') is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.