Database: Identifiers of Designated Islamic Terrorist Organizations

Kata'ib Hezbollah

Designation Status (as of October 12, 2026)

US State Dept FTO	Listed Kata’ib Hizballah (KH) since July 2, 2009
US Treasury OFAC SDN (SDGT)	Listed KATA'IB HIZBALLAH
UK Proscribed	Not listed official list
EU Terrorist Lists	Not listed official list
Canada Listed Entities	Not listed official list
Australia Listed	Not listed official list

Official lists as of October 12, 2026. Listing names are quoted as the list gives them. What changed since 2018

Profile written 2015 The profile below is the original Jihad Intel text and has not been updated. Designation status above is current.

Designated as terrorist by: United States

Base of operations: Iraq, Syria

Background: Washington Institute

Kata'ib Hezbollah is one of the Iranian-backed "Special Groups" of Shi'a militias that carried out attacks on coalition forces during the Iraq war. Since the U.S. withdrawal, the group has deployed fighters to Syria and has also set up a front group in Iraq, Saraya ad-Difa' ash-Sha'abi ("Popular Defense Brigades"), to assist Iraqi government forces to roll back Sunni insurgent advances, most notably in the Tikrit area, where security sources speaking to pro-government outlets readily admitted coordination. Kata'ib Hezbollah, as an Iranian proxy, espouses the Khomeinist ideology of Wilayat al-Faqih ("Guardianship of the Jurist"). Kata'ib Hezbollah has emerged as one of the most powerful militias in Iraq despite not having a formal political wing.

Though it had largely been focusing on the Iraqi home front since the outbreak of the Islamic State crisis in summer 2014, the group responded to a call from IRGC commander Qasim Suleimani to deploy units in Aleppo province to assist new offensives in the wake of the Russian intervention in Syria in support of the Assad regime in fall 2015.