Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The United States is poised to remove five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organisations, including several that once posed significant threats, killing hundreds if not thousands of people across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. World News | US Set to Remove 5 Groups from Foreign Terrorism Blacklist.
Names on the list are reviewed every five years to determine if they should stay on it, in order to maintain an up-to-date assessment of international terror.