The Armed Forces of National Resistance existed as one part of an umbrella group from 1980 to 1991.  On December 31, 1991, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front signed a peace agreement with the El Salvadorian government.  The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front is no longer active as a terrorist organization.  Today, FMLN is a legal political party in El Salvador.

al-Qaeda -- Ally
al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb -- Splinter Group
Islamic Salvation Front -- Founding Group
Takfir wa Hijra -- Ally
Unified Unit of Jihad -- Supported Cause

Funds are gained from bank robberies, village raids, extortion. Weapons are often stolen from police posts and the bodies of dead soldiers.

On September 29, 2005, Algeria adopted by general referendum the "Peace and Reconciliation Charter" proposed by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The referendum came into effect in February 2006 and offers a pardon to militants on the run who surrender by August 2006 as long as they are not responsible for massacres, rapes or bombings of public places. Several members of GIA have already been released as a result of the charter. The most recent significant attacks undertaken by the GIA were conducted in August 2001. Some sources have alleged the organization has become inactive due to the arrests and imprisonment of many of its members. Members of the GIA who wish to continue to conduct terrorist activities are believed to have joined the GIA's splinter group, the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC).

Founded by Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) members that escaped from prison in 1960, the Armed Revolutionary Action (ARA) group was charged with opposing the right-wing Portuguese government's colonialist policies with armed resistance. Though the ARA is only known to have claimed responsibility for one terrorist attack (the 1971 bombing of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Mozambique that claimed 23 lives), it is rumored that the small and secretive ARA ran terrorist operations inside Portugal as well as in Portugal's other overseas colonies. <P><br /><br />The founding principles of the ARA were articulated during the Fifth Party Congress of the PCP, where it was established that self-determination was a basic right afforded to all peoples and that national liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies should be fully supported by the PCP. Ironically, it would only be after a right-wing military coup seized control of Lisbon in 1974 that Portugal's African colonies were granted independence and one of the ARA's main objectives would be met.<br /><br />