State Dept. Updates Terrorist Designations
The State Department this month updated its list of terrorist designations.
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In Federal Register notices this week, the agency said it designated the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and a Foreign Terrorist Organization, designated Segunda Marquetalia as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and designated three others as SDGTs: Sanaullah Ghafari, Sultan Aziz Azam and Maulawi Rajab. The agency also designated Segunda Marquetalia, Luciano Marin Arango, Hernan Dario Velasquez Saldarriaga and Henry Castellanos Garzon as SDGTs.
The State Department maintained terrorist designations for Asbat al-Ansar, Harkat al-Mujahideen, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- General Command and Kata’ib Hizballah. It also maintained the designation of ISIL Khorasan.