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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.
Many organizations that have been designated as terrorist have denied using terrorism as a military tactic to achieve their goals, and there is no international consensus on the legal definition of terrorism. [2] [3] This listing does not include unaffiliated individuals accused of terrorism, which is considered lone wolf terrorism. This list ...
What is the Foreign Terrorist Organization list? The State Department’s FTO list was created following two major terrorist events in the 1990s: a chemical attack in a Tokyo subway and the ...
If Ansar Allah is designated as a foreign terrorist organization under 8 U.S.C. 1189, the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will review the United Nations partners, nongovernmental organizations, and contractors through which USAID works in Yemen, and identify any entities ...
A Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation bans Americans—or anyone who wants to immigrate to the United States—from providing any kind of "material support" to a designated terrorist ...
The Houthis, who control much of western Yemen, including the capital city of Sana’a, have been waging war against Yemen’s internationally recognized government and a Saudi-led coalition since ...
The word "terrorism" describes not just certain methods, but also a negative bias. The set of methods falling under terrorism is preferrably called "defence" and "counter terrorism" by the entities when describing their own actions. Low Intensity Warfare which is official US policy has a definition very close to terrorist methods.
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump redesignated the Yemeni Islamic terrorist group, Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). He first ...