Fact sheets

EXTREMIST GROUPS Hamas is an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya, meaning the Islamic resistance movement. It was founded in 1987, Read More

EXTREMIST GROUPS The Proud Boys are a male-only far-right organisation which promotes a street-fighting style of political violence, which have Read More

EXTREMIST GROUPS The Lord’s Resistance Army was an extremist, terrorist organisation operating across several African states, which terrorised the population Read More

EXTREMIST GROUPS Revolutionary Armed Forces of ColombiaFARC were formed in 1964; the acronym for standing Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército Read More

EXTREMIST GROUPS Boko Haram is the term used to describe a terrorist organisation which formed in the city of Maiduguri, Read More

EXTREMIST GROUPS Ma Ba Tha (The Organisation for the Protection of Race and Religion) is a Burmese religio-nationalist movements, which Read More

In 2016, the Naxalite movement was rated the third most deadly terrorist group in the world, after ISIS and the Read More

The Nordic Resistance Movement is a pan-Nordic neo-Nazi organisation with the goal of ‘a united ethnic Nordic Nation.’ Their main Read More

QAnon is a hugely popular and complex conspiracy theory. The original central mythos is that former President Trump was engaged Read More

Literally the Party of God, Hezbollah was formed by Lebanese Shia’ clerics who had studied in Najaf in Iraq, one Read More