US Department of State Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are entities designated by the U.S. Secretary of State under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). It is unlawful to knowingly provide these organizations with material support or resources. Non-citizen members of FTOs may be denied entry into, or removed from, the United States. Additionally, U.S. financial institutions are required to block and report any assets associated with these organizations to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Data overview

Entities:
Total212
Searchable105
Targets85
Entity types:
Organizations105
Publisher:U.S. Department of State (DOS) · United States

The United States Department of State (DOS) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

Collections:in Consolidated Sanctions · OpenSanctions Default
Information:www.state.gov
Source data:www.state.gov · HTML
Tags:list.sanction · juris.us
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:2025-10-02 16:49:26 · v. 20251002164926-kyu
Last change:

Bulk download

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities175.96 KB
names.txtTarget names text file3.08 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format49.95 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON149.36 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV20.73 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:

Programs1

This dataset consolidates entities targeted by the following sanctions programs, policy regimes or sub-lists:

IDTitleIssuerTarget countries
[US-FTO219]US Immigration and Nationality Act Section 219State United States

Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Barrio 18Organization
Los LobosOrganization
al-Nusrah FrontOrganization
Kata'ib al-Imam AliOrganizationSyria · Iraq
Viv AnsanmOrganizationHaiti
Gran GrifOrganizationHaiti
Ansar al-IslamOrganization
al-Qa’idaOrganization
Ansar al-DineOrganization
Army of IslamOrganization
AnsarallahOrganization
HizballahOrganization
AnsaruOrganization
Carteles UnidosOrganizationMexico
Tren de AraguaOrganizationBrazil · Colombia · Peru · Venezuela · Chile · United States of America · Bolivia · Ecuador · Panama
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