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The Bureau of Counterterrorism's mission is to promote U.S. national security by taking a leading role in developing coordinated strategies and approaches to defeat terrorism abroad and securing the counterterrorism cooperation of international partners.
Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security Michael Evanoff And Ambassador Nathan A. Sales, Coordinator for Counterterrorism On the State Department’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) Program
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Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Nathan Sales on the Release of the Country Reports on Terrorism 2018
The Country Reports on Terrorism offers the most detailed look that the Federal Government offers on the global terrorist landscape. Today, I’m going to highlight three key trends that we saw in the 2018 report. First, in 2018, the United States and our coalition partners nearly completed the destruction of the so-called ISIS caliphate while increasing pressure on the terror group’s global networks. Second, the Islamic Republic of Iran remained the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism, and the administration continued to subject the regime to unrelenting diplomatic and economic pressure. Third, the world saw a rise in racially or ethnically motivated terrorism – a disturbing trend that the administration highlighted in our 2018 National Counterterrorism Strategy.
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- Country Reports on Terrorism
- Terrorist Designations
- Programs and Initiatives
- The Global Counterterrorism Forum
Country Reports on Terrorism
U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.
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Current lists of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and State Sponsors of Terrorism.
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Learn about the Bureau of Counterterrorism’s various programs to build foreign partner capacity and counter terrorism around the world.
Learn More About the Bureau of Counterterrorism Programs and InitiativesThe Global Counterterrorism Forum
An informal, multilateral counterterrorism platform with 30 founding members that promotes a strategic, long-term approach to dealing with the CT threat. The Forum identifies urgent needs, devises solutions, and mobilizes resources to address key civilian counterterrorism challenges. The Forum was launched in September 2011. Please visit theGCTF.org for more information
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