Primary Name:                   Al-Shabaab

Aliases:                              Al-Shabaab al-Islaam; Al-Shabaab al-Islamiya; Al-Shabaab al-Jihaad; Al-Shabab; Ash-shabaab; Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen; Harakat Shabab al-Mujahidin; Harakatul Shabaab al-Mujaahidiin; Hizbul Shabaab; Hisb'ul Shabaab; Mujahideen Youth Movement; Mujahidin al-Shabaab Movement; Mujaahidiin Youth Movement; Mujahidin Youth Movement; Shabaab; The Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations; The Unity of Islamic Youth; Ugus; The Youth; Young Mujahideen Movement; Young Mujahideen Movement in Somalia; Youth Wing.

Address:                            Somalia

Original listing date:          Listed by the Foreign Minister under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 on 21 August 2009. The listing was declared by the Foreign Minister on 10 November 2016 to continue in effect.

Additional information:    Al-Shabaab, or ‘the youth’, was formed out of the militant wing of the former Somali Council of Islamic Courts.

Primary Name:                   Hamas

Aliases:                              Islamic Resistance Movement; Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya; Izz al-Din al Qassam Battalions; Izz al-Din al Qassam Brigades; Izz al-Din al Qassam Forces; Students of Ayyash; Student of the Engineer; Yahya Ayyash Units; Izz al-Din al Qassim Brigades; Izz al-Din al-Qassim Forces; Izz al-Din al Qassim Battalions.

Address:                            Palestinian Territories

Original listing date:          Listed by the Foreign Minister under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 on 21 December 2001. The listing was declared by the Foreign Minister on 10 November 2016 to continue in effect.

Additional information:    Hamas is a radical Islamist organisation that controls Gaza.

Primary Name:                   Hizballah

Aliases:                              Hezballah, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, Party of God, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad Organization, Revolutionary Justice Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, Organization of Right against Wrong, Ansar Allah, Followers of the Prophet Muhammed.

Address:                            Lebanon

Original listing date:          Listed by the Foreign Minister under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 on 21 December 2001. The listing was declared by the Foreign Minister on 10 November 2016 to continue in effect.

Additional information:    Hizballah (the Party of God) was established in 1982 in Lebanon, with the primary aim of establishing a theocratic state in Lebanon. It has evolved to pursue a socio-political agenda, including the provision of social services. Hizballah’s External Security Organisation is responsible for the planning, coordination and execution of terrorist attacks against Hizballah’s enemies outside of Lebanon.

Primary Name:                   Kurdistan Workers' Party

Aliases:                              Freedom and Democratic Congress of Kurdistan, Hezan Parastina Gel, HPG, KADEK, Kongra Azadi u Demokrasiya Kurdistan, Kongra Gel, Kongra Gele Kurdistan, Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress, Kurdistan Freedom Brigade, Kurdish Freedom Falcons, Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, Kurdistan Halk Kongresi, Kurdistan Labor Party, Kurdish Liberation Hawks, Kurdistan Ozgurluk Sahinleri, Kurdistan People's Congress, New PKK, Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan, People's Congress of Kurdistan, People's Defence Force, PKK, TAK, Teyrbazên Azadiya Kurdistan.

Address:                            Turkey

Original listing date:          Listed by the Foreign Minister under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 on 21 December 2001. The listing was declared by the Foreign Minister on 10 November 2016 to continue in effect.

Additional information:    The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was formed in 1978 and initially sought the creation of an independent Kurdish state in south-eastern Turkey, Syria and Iraq. It now calls for greater Kurdish autonomy.

Primary Name:                   Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Aliases:                              PIJ; al-Quds Brigades; Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami fi Filistin; Islamic Jihad; Islamic Jihad Palestine; Islamic Jihad—Palestine Faction and Islamic Holy War; The Jerusalem Brigades; Saraya al-Quds.

Address:                            Palestinian Territories

Original listing date:          Listed by the Foreign Minister under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 on 21 December 2001. The listing was declared by the Foreign Minister on 10 November 2016 to continue in effect.

Additional information:    Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a Sunni Islamist organisation that is committed to the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state that includes the Palestinian Territories and Israel.

Primary Name:                   Al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent

Aliases:                              AQIS.

Address:                            Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan

Original listing date:          Listed by the Foreign Minister under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 on 28 November 2016.

Additional information:    AQIS is an al-Qa’ida-affiliated extremist group, established in September 2014 with the purpose of advancing al-Qa’ida’s ideology in South Asia.

Primary Name:                   Islamic State in Libya

Aliases:                              IS–Libya; Islamic State–Libya; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant–Libya; Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham–Libya; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Libya; Wilayat Barqa; Wilayat Barqah; Wilayat Fezzan; Wilayat Tripolitania; Wilayat Tarablus; Wilayat al-Tarabulus.

Address:                            Libya

Original listing date:          Listed by the Foreign Minister under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 on 28 November 2016.

Additional information:    Islamic State in Libya is an ISIL-affiliated extremist group, which adheres to ISIL’s global jihadist ideology.