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:
Total234
Searchable114
Targets96
Entity types:
Organizations114
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:
2026-08-05 06:55:31 · v. 20260805065531-mlp
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 entities251.37 KB
names.txtTarget names text file3.41 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format53.46 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON219.94 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV23.24 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
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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
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Los ViagrasOrganization
Chone KillersOrganizationEcuador
Comando VermelhoOrganizationBrazil
Sudanese Muslim BrotherhoodOrganizationSudan
JAMAA ISLAMIYAHOrganizationLebanon
Antifa OstOrganizationGermany
Revolutionary Class Self-DefenseOrganizationGreece
Armed Proletarian JusticeOrganizationGreece
Barrio 18OrganizationGuatemala · United States · El Salvador · Honduras · Canada · Italy
Cartel de los SolesOrganizationVenezuela
Kata'ib al-Imam AliOrganizationIraq · Syria
Viv AnsanmOrganizationHaiti
Gran GrifCompanyHaiti
Carteles UnidosOrganizationMexico
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