Top Wealthiest Terrorist Organizations
Richest terrorist organizations worldwide
There are multiple Internationally designated Terrorist Organizations by United Nations listed below
Financial support is what feeds any organization, whether they are building houses, Doing Charitable work or running an NGO, or conducting heinous crimes and violent activities. A terrorist organization is like any licit business which needs funds to survive. Brief money is used to organize general activities, compensate earnings for militants and activists, progress training sessions and camps, Buy ammunitions and destructive substances, and distribute transportation and many other facilities.
But licit businesses, Dread Ventures are unable to depend on credit or stocks, or charity to fund terror activities. Rather, they transfer their financial efforts to belowground operations, throughout the financial rules of the economic world.
Here, we have a list of the world’s most opulent and cash-rich terrorist organizations
1.ISIS — Annual Turnover $2 Billion
2.. FARC — Annual Turnover $600 Million
3.Hezbollah — Annual Turnover $500 Million
4. Taliban — Annual Turnover $400 Million
5.Al-Qaeda — Annual Turnover $150 Million
6.KKP- Kurdistan Workers Party $130 Million
7.Lashkar-e-Taiba — Annual Turnover $100 Million
8.Al Shabab — Annual Turnover $70 Million
9.Real IRA Irish — Annual Turnover $50 Million
10.Boko Haram — Annual Turnover $52 Million
Source: Forbes/Statista
ISIS
The Yearly turnover of ISIS is $2 billion Main financing sources are international oil dealing in black markets, Abducting and ransom, collection of protection and extortion money, bank robberies and looting, etc.
Their aim is to establish an Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, the Muslim’s holy places, and war against the infidels, Non-Muslims, Christians, Zionists, and the Jews
FARC
The Yearly turnover — $ 600 million.
Region: Colombia Main financing sources are drug harvest and production and drug trafficking, abducting and ransom, mining of minerals, especially gold, extortion money, and taxes. Their goal is to eliminate the capitalist regime and the establishment of Marxist-socialist welfare.FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolutionaries de Colombia) is a belowground Marxist and anti-imperialist activist party and a key player in the bloody struggle that’s ravaged Columbia for more than five decades.
Hezbollah
The Yearly turnover: $500 million
Region: Lebanon Main financing sources are financial backup and assistance and donations from Iran production and trafficking of drugs and illegal oil trading
Their aim is to train militants to fight against the state of Israel and establishing an Islamic Sharia state in Lebanon
The organization was established as a militant group fighting for the Shia Group of the Muslim population in Lebanon and fight against Israel, Hezbollah is like Hamas. Hezbollah has a powerful political arm that makes them one of the major controllers in Lebanon. Hezbollah has a matrix of nursing foundations and institutional centers, which dispense relief, security, health services, education, and livelihood to large portions of the Shi’ite indigents.
Taliban
The Yearly turnover — $ 400 million
Region: Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Primary financing sources are drug harvesting and trafficking mainly the production of cocaine, opium, and heroin, funding fees, and ransom money and donations. Their goal is the establishment of an Islamic fundamentalist theocracy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Taliban is a militant political organization that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 and applied the law of Sunni Islamic Sharia rules. A Pashtun (the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan) fundamentalist organization, which gained popularity despite allegations of corruption and discrimination by the government, deposed in September 1996
Al-Qaeda
The Yearly turnover: $ 150 million.Main sources of finance: Economic assistance and donations, Abducting, Extortion and ransom, and drug trafficking.
Purpose: Global jihad (Islamic fight) against the Christians and Jews and the articulation of a unified Islamic front in apposition to Western-Liberal-secular forces
Al-Qaeda is one of the most deadly dreadful organizations and brought a profound negative change in the Western’s world point of view to Islam.
Kurdistan Workers’ Part
The Yearly turnover: $ 130 million.Main sources of finance: Foreign states provided the required money, camps, weapons, training, bases and the infrastructure to generate more of these assets to the PKK
The PKK terrorist organization has been benefiting from state sponsorship since its establishment. The era of first armed campaign funding, from 1978 to 1998, is dominated by state sponsorship. Foreign states provided the required money, camps, weapons, training, bases, and the infrastructure to generate more of these assets to the PKK. Political support from states that held various grievances with Turkey was immense. Accordingly, the PKK slowly but steadily established its own funding sources. As the PKK gained expertise in drug trafficking and trafficking human beings, the organization expanded its reach and scope of the illegal sources of funding. Through the early- to mid-1990s, the PKK managed to stay under the radar as it slowly established its infrastructure and Kurdish diaspora in Western Europe.
Since 1984, the PKK has been involved in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict with cease-fires in 1999–2004 and 2013–2015, utilizing unbalance warfare to seek various aims, together with an independent State of Kurdish people, Self-determination, and increased human rights for Kurds within Turkey.
The PKK was constructed in November 1978 in the village of Fis near Lice by a group of Kurdish students led by Abdullah Öcalan. Who were elected the General Secretary and Kemal Pir, Cemîl Bayik, and Mazlum Doğan were part of the Central Committee. It announced its presence the following year. The PKK’s doctrine was originally a combination of revolutionary socialism and Marxism with Kurdish nationalism, seeking the foundation of an independent Kurdistan. The primary reasons by the PKK for this were the abuse of Kurds in Turkey and under capitalism.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Yearly turnover: $ 100 million.
Region: Pakistan and India. Main sources of finance: financial backing and charity donations.
The purpose of this organization is the immediate release of Kashmir India and unification with Pakistani Kashmir under Islamic Republic rule.
Lashkar-e-Taiba “Army of the righteous” to its followers, is a Pakistani Islamist terror group, considered to be one of the governing groups in Southeast Asia. Its goal is to free Indian occupied Kashmir and combine it with Pakistani Kashmir under Islamic rule while applying the Sharia law and establishing an Islamic caliphate. Although militant activity today is concentrated mainly in the State of occupied Jammu-Kashmir in northern India, the organization’s global ambition as they declared, is the destruction of the Indian Republic Ruling and the complete elimination of Hindus, Christians, and Jews as they consider them all the enemies of Islam.
Al Shabab
Yearly turnover is about 70 million
Main funding sources are abducting, extortion, protection money and ransom, illegal trade of drugs and pirate activity, Funds and taxes
Region: Somalia, Kenya, Uganda. The goal of this organization is the removal of foreign forces and ministries from Somalia and the establishment of an Islamic caliphate.
Al-Shabab is the vast militant terror organization in Somalia and was established in 2006. The military arm of the United Islamic Courts, an Islamist opposition to the weak regime. Today, al-Shabab aims to overthrow the government, eliminate foreign powers from the country (Ethiopia and Kenya backed by the US), and establish an Islamic caliphate in Somalia under the laws of Sharia. al-Shabab carried out a sequence of deadly attacks, including bombing cars, shootings, and sending suicide bombers to target innocent civilians and military personals in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya.
REAL IRA
Yearly turnover: $ 50 million
Primary funding sources are smuggling and illegal trading, aids, and donations.
Region: Northern Ireland, Ireland, United Kingdom. The Purpose of the IRA is to Release Northern Ireland and the establishment of a United Irish state, which involves the Northern Ireland and Ireland countryside.
Real IRA is an extremist faction of the IRA (Irish Republican Army), Created by activists who oppose the peace agreement in April 1998. This faction is examining to be the most powerful resistance organization working against the British and it is designated as a terrorist organization by the EU and the USA.
The Real IRA itself a follower of the mythological IRA, and focused to partitioned the United Kingdom and creating a united Irish state, which also includes the northern areas of the island.
Boko Haram
Yearly turnover is $ 25 million and the Primary source of funding is abducting and ransom, extortion and donations, protection money, bank robberies, and looting innocent civilians
Region: Nigeria, Cameroon, and their goal are to struggle against secularism and Western influences in the region, bring down Christian secularism, and the creation of Islamic ruling in Nigeria. If there is an organization that compares in rivaling ISIS viciousness, this is it. The Nigerian terror organization Boko Haram which means “Western education is a sin”, is against education according to western liberal values, who it believes refute the Islamic doctrine. It is Created in 2002 by a union of armed gangs in the outskirts of the city of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria, it struggles to bring down the current regime and replace it with the laws of the Islamic spirit and sharia ruling.
Furthermore, like similar organizations, Boko Haram sponsors itself through looting, robberies, black market trading, illegal ammunition trade, and the extortions of civilians living in the outskirts under its supremacy.
