Published date: 15 January 2021 19:29 UTC | Last update: 2 months 4 weeks ago
The United States has designated the Egyptian group Harakat Sawa d Misr, also known as Hasm, a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO) following a series of attacks against government officials and security personnel.
In a statement on Friday, the State Department said it was elevating Hasm s listing from a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) to FTO to seek to deny [Hasm] and its leadership the resources to plan and carry out terrorist attacks .
Hasm has claimed responsibility for more than a dozen attacks on Egyptian security forces in recent years, including the killing of National Security Agency officer Ibrahim Azzazy.