Colombian narco-terrorist groups experienced a staggering 90 percent growth in their ranks during the four-year, far-left presidency of Gustavo Petro, the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported on Monday.
The wave of intense violence unleashed by Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) following their death of its leader, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, left over a thousand tourists stranded at the Guadalajara City Zoo in the state of Jalisco this weekend, local outlets reported.
The U.S. Treasury and State Departments designated several chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organizations.
The State Department will announce the designation of the Clan del Golfo, a cocaine- and human-trafficking organized criminal militia in Colombia, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on Tuesday, Breitbart News learned.
Florida’s Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is poised to file a lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis after he designated the group a foreign terrorist organization.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing a review of Muslim Brotherhood chapters to determine if they deserve foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) designations.
President Donald Trump said Sunday night that discussions with Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro are possible and that Maduro wants to talk.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Sunday that the U.S. government would soon designate the Cartel de los Soles (“Cartel of the Suns”), an intercontinental drug trafficking operation run through the Venezuelan military, a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
A group of families who had their loved ones slaughtered by drug cartels are asking the Trump administration to designate the Juarez Cartel and its armed wing La Linea, as foreign terrorist organizations. The move would place that cartel on the same list as six other Mexican cartels previously designated as FTOs
President Donald Trump’s decision to issue an executive order to redesignate the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization is a bold move to protect Americans and global stability, according to Republican Congressman Abe Hamadeh of Arizona, who commended the returning president while slamming the Biden administration’s earlier decision to reverse the designation as a “disastrous mistake.”
On Wednesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking defended the softer terrorist designation that the Biden administration put on the Houthis because it “gives us a little bit more flexibility to have carve-outs and licenses so that
On Wednesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking discussed the Biden administration’s decision to put a terrorist organization designation on the Houthis and defended the Biden administration’s decision to remove the terrorist organization designation from the Houthis
The Biden admin announced it was designating the Houthis as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” not a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
The internationally recognized Yemeni government justified recent U.S. and U.K. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, pointing to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels’ “terrorist attacks” on commercial ships in the Red Sea, while deeming Houthi claims the attacks are in support of Palestinians as “propaganda.” Yemen also appeared to criticize the Biden administration’s previous removal of the Houthis from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list, which, it argued, “encouraged” the terror group to become a “threat to the security and stability of the entire world.”
GOP lawmakers are requesting the Biden administration provide a classified briefing concerning Iran’s “brazen activities,” including alleged plans to assassinate U.S. officials.
Rep. Mary Miller proposed a resolution which would designate a non-exhaustive list of Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
The United States should capitulate to the Iranian demand to remove the hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from its foreign terrorist organization list, according to a Foreign Policy magazine essay that admits doing so would alienate Middle East allies and that Iran can not be trusted to follow up on its promises.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) called on the State Department to designate the radical Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration would be “siding with autocrats and roiling [the] Middle East” if it joins several Islamic countries in designating the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) a terrorist organization, the New York Times (NYT) argued this week.
A top Turkish politician this week argued that the potential decision by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to list the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a foreign terrorist organization along with the likes of al-Qaeda would “increase Islamophobia” in America and Europe.
For the first time ever, the U.S. designated part of a foreign government, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.
