US designates Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist organizations: What to know
The designations of the Brotherhood's branches in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan follow President Donald Trump's executive order in November targeting the pan-Islamist movement.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday designated several Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist organizations, a move that imposes broad travel and economic sanctions on members of the movement’s branches in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.
The State Department labeled the Brotherhood’s Lebanese branch — al-Jamaa al-Islamiyah — as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), a classification that puts it in the same category as the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
The group’s secretary general, Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, was labeled a specially designated global terrorist (SDGT). Under Taqqosh’s leadership, the group has pushed for a more formal alignment with the Hezbollah-Hamas axis, the department said.
A State Department fact sheet accompanying the designations cited al-Jamaa al-Islamiyah’s firing of rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel following Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and the Lebanese military's dismantling of a covert training camp that included militants from both Hamas and al-Jamaa al-Islamiyah.
