Bureau Home Bureau Home About Us Leadership Key Topics The Global Coalition To Defeat ISIS Remarks and Releases Reports Contact Us HomeBureaus & Offices > Under Secretary for Political Affairs ...Bureau of Counterterrorism hide Bureau of Counterterrorism Subscribe Our Mission The Bureau of Counterterrorism's mission is to promote U.S. national security by taking a leading role in developing coordinated strategies and approaches to defeat terrorism abroad and securing the counterterrorism cooperation of international partners. Follow Us: Twitter The Latest March 21, 2024 The Islamic State Five Years Later: Persistent Threats, U.S. Options On March 23, 2019, almost exactly five years ago, the Coalition and its local partners liberated the final stretch of territory controlled by ISIS in Baghuz, Syria. This was and remains a milestone in our continued efforts to ensure ISIS cannot resurge. March 23, 2024 Terrorist Attack in Moscow March 7, 2024 Joint Statement of the 20th U.S.- India Counterterrorism Joint Working Group March 5, 2024 Intervention at the D-ISIS Coalition FTF Working Group See All Policy Issues Country Reports on Terrorism Terrorist Designations Programs and Initiatives Country Reports on Terrorism U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism. Learn More About Country Reports on Terrorism Country Reports on Terrorism Terrorist Designations Current lists of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and State Sponsors of Terrorism. Learn More About State Sponsors of Terrorism and Terrorist Designations Terrorist Designations Programs and Initiatives Learn about the Bureau of Counterterrorism’s various programs to build foreign partner capacity and counter terrorism around the world. Learn More About the Bureau of Counterterrorism Programs and Initiatives Offices The Global Coalition To Defeat ISIS