(CNN) — The Trump administration has designated four European Antifa groups as terrorists.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday he was classifying four groups in Germany, Italy, and Greece as Specially Designated Global Terrorists and intends to designate them as foreign terrorist organizations effective next week.
The designations put the groups – Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/FRI), Revolutionary Class Self-Defense, and Armed Proletarian Justice – in the same category with groups like ISIS-K and al-Shabaab.
The move comes amid a push by President Donald Trump to target the Antifa movement, which often leans to the political left and lacks centralized structure or defined leadership.
In September, Trump signed an order

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