Forty-seven organisations remain on the European Union’s list of terrorist groups after the bloc’s decision on Monday to strike off The People’s Mujahideen of Iran.

Here is a list of the main groups considered terrorist by the EU, and whose accounts and assets are frozen.

Palestinian organisations:

• Abu Nidal Organisation

• Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

• Hamas

• Islamic Jihad

• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command

Israeli organisation:

• Kach

North Africa:

• Armed Islamic Group (GIA) (Algeria)

Turkey:

• Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)

Europe:

• Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA) (Spain)

• Batasuna (Spain)

• Real IRA (Northern Ireland)

• Red Brigades (Italy)

• Revolutionary Fight (Greece)

Latin America:

• Shining Path (Peru)

• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

• United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia

Asia:

• The Tamil Tigers (Sri Lanka)

• New People’s Army (Philippines)

• Philippines Communist Party (Philippines)

• Aum Shinrikyo (Japan)

The EU has also drawn up a list of 45 people who it says are linked to terrorism.—AFP