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The State Department will formally designate four Antifa-linked groups operating in Europe as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specifically Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), Fox News Digital has learned.

The decision marks the first time the U.S. government has applied foreign terrorist designations to Antifa-linked groups, expanding President Trump’s previous domestic terrorism directive to an international scale.

The four Antifa-aligned cells active in Europe — in Germany, Italy, and Greece — are accused of organizing or carrying out bombings, shootings, and other politically motivated attacks.

The designation requires U.S. financial institutions to freeze assets of FTOs and SDGTs and ban entry of the group’s members into the

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