State Dept. Maintains FTO Designations for Terror Groups

The State Department is maintaining the Foreign Terrorist Organization designations for al-Qa’ida in the Indian subcontinent, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, the Islamic State of West Africa and Jemaah Islamiyah, the agency said in a notice released last week. It said the “circumstances that were the basis for the designation" of those organizations "have not changed in such a manner as to warrant revocation of the designations and that the national security of the United States does not warrant a revocation of the designations."