Published Jul 17, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT
Rubio and Miller urged global action against far-left terrorism, raising concerns about ideological profiling and politicized enforcement.
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Published Jul 17, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT
There is a threat to the United States beyond adversaries like China, Iran and Russia—and it's coming from one side of the domestic political aisle. That's according to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who gathered political leaders, law enforcement officials and counterterrorism experts from 66 countries at the State Department on July 16 to build an international campaign against what the Trump administration calls transnational far-left political terrorism. The Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism focused on expanding intelligence sharing, tracing funding across borders, coordinating investigations, and supporting terrorist designations against organizations accused of political violence. Rubio argued that left-wing extremists can raise money, communicate, recruit and train in different countries before attacking elsewhere. Rubio said counterterrorism policy had developed a “blind spot” toward violence from the political left. He grouped communists, anarchists, Marxists and anti-capitalists into what he described as a movement driven by hostility toward Western civilization, calling its members “enemies of civilization.” In 2025, President Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization while Rubio separately designated four European antifa-linked groups as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists.
