The U.S. government designated the Resistance Front, considered an offshoot of the Pakistani extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a "foreign terrorist organization" over the April 22 Islamist militant attack in Indian Kashmir that killed 26 men,

The Resistance Front is not the first organisation to have been placed on the list. Apart from TRF, many other terror groups are there that include Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, along with terror groups Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS),

The US Department of State added The Resistance Front to its Foreign Terrorist Organization list following the Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.