US Secretary of State Marco \u2060Rubio told officials from more than 60 countries on Thursday that the United States would seek to refocus international counterterrorism efforts on what he called \u201cfar-left terror\u201d, arguing that left-wing violence had long been overlooked.<\/p>\n
The conference in Washington has sparked Democratic concerns that the Trump administration is politicising counterterrorism efforts and diverting resources from other extremist threats.<\/p>\n
In a speech, Rubio said the Islamic militancy threat was \u201cseverely diminished\u201d due to coordinated international efforts but that rising left-wing violence was a \u201cblind spot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can and we must identify and \u200cmap this threat and rebuild our counterterrorism architecture to defeat it,\u201d Rubio said, citing a transnational threat from groups who hate the West and target its politicians and infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The conference marks the Trump administration\u2019s most significant effort yet to internationalise a counterterrorism focus that critics say is not supported by data.<\/p>\n
Charlie Kirk, conservative activist and Trump ally, dead after being shot at US college<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has made countering left-wing groups a priority. Trump singled out the antifa movement on the campaign trail in 2024, and vowed to take action against left-wing groups he accuses of fomenting violence after the killing of conservative activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Marco \u2060Rubio told officials from more than 60 countries on Thursday that the United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,327785,327784,327783,49204,3668,12,25217,6797,211193,327782,74615,643,3,327781,7072,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-767258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-antifa-ost","tag-armed-proletarian-justice","tag-baiba-braze","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-cuba","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-floyd","tag-germany","tag-gregory-meeks","tag-informal-anarchist-federation-international-revolutionary-front","tag-latvia","tag-marco-rubio","tag-news","tag-revolutionary-class-self-defence","tag-stephen-miller","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}