State Department makes first-ever Antifa foreign terrorist designations across Europe
The State Department will designate four Antifa-linked groups operating in Europe as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specifically Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) — putting them among the likes of ISIS,...
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The State Department will designate four Antifa-linked groups operating in Europe as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specifically Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) — putting them among the likes of ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah — Fox News Digital has learned. The decision marks the first time the U.S. government has applied foreign terrorist designations to Antifa-linked groups, expanding President Donald Trump’s previous domestic terrorism directive to an international scale. The four Antifa-aligned cells active in Europe — in Germany, Italy and Greece — are accused of organizing or carrying out bombings, shootings and other politically motivated attacks. The designation requires U.S. financial institutions to freeze assets of FTOs and SDGTs and ban entry of the group’s members into the U.S. It allows the U.S. to criminally prosecute those under U.S. jurisdiction who offer material support to FTOs or conspire to offer such support. TRUMP TO DESIGNATE ANTIFA A 'MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION One of the groups — Antifa Ost — is a left-wing cell that has been linked to attacks between 2018 and 2023 in Germany. German prosecutors have charged seven individuals linked to the group. In September 2025, the Hungarian government designated the group as terrorists after nine members allegedly assaulted people with hammers, batons and pepper spray in Budapest in 2023. The International Revolutionary Front, also known as the Informal Anarchist Federation, is an Italy-based coalition of groups that endorse revolutionary armed conflict against the state. The group has been tied to dozens of violent and criminal incidents over the past two decades: letter bombs to government and industrial targets, small explosive devices, shootings, including the 2012 shooting of a nuclear engineering executive. TRUMP CALLS ANTIFA ‘TERRORIST GROUP,’ FUELING FIGHT OVER FREE SPEECH AND LIMITS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT Two other Greece-based groups: Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary…