2026-07-16T08:00:25.572Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/politics/rubio-meeting-on-far-left-political-terrorism-with-65-countries
据美国国务院一名官员透露，国务卿马可·卢比奥将称当前“极左翼政治恐怖主义”出现“死灰复燃”之势，他将于本周四在华盛顿召集全球各国外交官开会商讨应对之策。
这是特朗普政府的一项核心优先事项，该政府在其反恐战略中辩称，“暴力左翼极端分子，包括无政府主义者和反法西斯主义者”与贩毒集团和“传统伊斯兰恐怖分子”一道，是美国面临的首要恐怖主义威胁。
然而，多名前官员表示，该问题已被本届政府政治化，“极左翼”构成的威胁并未达到ISIS等组织或极右翼极端分子所构成的威胁级别。而极右翼极端分子完全未出现在今年5月发布的本届政府反恐战略中。
据美国国务院介绍，周四的部长级会议旨在“扩大协调、加强信息共享，并强化国际执法机制，以应对这一被国际社会反恐关注所忽视的威胁”。
一名国务院高级官员表示，65个国家的代表团将出席此次活动，他们来自“西半球、亚洲、欧洲及其他地区”。
据消息人士透露，许多代表团将不会由本国外长率领，而是由级别更低的工作层面和技术官员组成。多名消息人士提到了日程安排问题，因为此次会议的邀请函直到7月初才发出。
这位官员表示，曾与本届政府在该议题上开展合作的国家均在受邀之列，并指出美国“与德国、希腊、意大利进行了非常富有成效的接触，而这些国家往往是欧洲该问题最为突出的地区”。
据国务院官员透露，卢比奥在讲话中计划将左翼恐怖主义描述为“根植于对文明的深刻怨恨的独特邪恶的产物”。美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特和白宫副幕僚长斯蒂芬·米勒也预计将出席此次会议。
这名国务院高级官员表示，左翼恐怖主义威胁“尚未得到切实有效的集体应对”。据该官员透露，合作伙伴曾表示他们“能够掌控其他形式的政治暴力”，但“这一威胁对我们来说更为棘手”。
这位高级官员援引去年11月被本届政府列为恐怖组织的欧洲反法西斯行动小组（Antifa）成员发动的袭击，作为极左翼恐怖主义行动的例子。当被问及左翼抗议是否会被视为极左翼恐怖主义的一种形式时，他们并未提供世界其他地区的相关案例，但表示他们关注的是“暴力刑事恐怖行为”。
不过，前官员们表示，此次部长级会议似乎是本届政府放大威胁、针对那些反对特朗普政策的政治左翼人士的整体努力的一部分。多位接受美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）采访的人士表示，极左翼极端分子构成的威胁现实与本届政府的描述并不相符。
“我们曾审视过各种形式的恐怖主义，包括左翼恐怖主义，但现实和数据，无论是在国内还是国外，都表明左翼极端主义过去不是、现在也不是构成极右翼恐怖主义、极端主义暴力或圣战主义暴力那样的威胁或威胁程度，”拜登政府时期国务院前反恐副协调员伊恩·莫斯说道。
现为詹纳·布洛克律师事务所律师的莫斯指出，存在“其他形式的暴力意识形态极端主义，首先是伊斯兰暴力，当然还有暴力右翼极端分子或白人身份认同恐怖分子，这在国内和国际上都是真正的风险、真正的担忧，而本届政府似乎并未对此予以关注”。
国务院前高级反恐顾问迈克尔·达芬表示，在他从事反恐工作的九年时间里，“所谓的左翼极端主义从未”达到过值得如此高规格关注的级别。
“不存在需要投入这些资源的左翼暴力极端分子团体或组织，”他告诉CNN。达芬是去年作为本届政府大规模解雇和国务院改组的一部分被解雇的众多国务院反恐官员之一。
在唐纳德·特朗普总统的第二任期内，他的政府还加大了对所谓极左翼极端分子的国内施压力度。
特朗普将反法西斯运动“反法西斯行动”列为所谓的“国内恐怖组织”。尽管声称反法西斯行动是国内首要关切问题，但执法机构一直难以界定这个松散无组织的团体、其规模、分会地点以及其他基本信息。
CNN的霍姆斯·莱布兰德为本报道作出了贡献。
Rubio to convene meeting on ‘far-left political terrorism’ with representatives from 65 countries
2026-07-16T08:00:25.572Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/politics/rubio-meeting-on-far-left-political-terrorism-with-65-countries
Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a “resurgence” of “far left political terrorism,” according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response.
It is a key priority of the Trump administration, which has argued in its counterterrorism strategy that “violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists” are foremost terrorist threat to the United States, alongside cartels and “legacy Islamist terrorists.”
However, multiple former officials said the issue has been politicized by the administration and that the threat from the “far-left” does not rise to the level of that posed by groups like ISIS or by far-right extremists. The latter was absent entirely from the administration’s counterterrorism strategy released in May.
Thursday’s ministerial, according to the State Department, is meant to “expand coordination, enhance information sharing, and strengthen international law enforcement mechanisms to counter the threat” that it says has “remained a blind spot in the international community’s counterterrorism focus.”
A senior State Department official said 65 country delegations are slated to attend the event from “across the Western Hemisphere, Asia, Europe, and beyond.”
According to sources, many of the delegations will not be led by the foreign ministers of the countries, but rather more working-level and technical officials. Several cited scheduling, with invitations to the event only being issued at the beginning of July.
Countries that had worked with the administration on the topic were among those invited, the official said, noting they’ve had “very productive engagements with Germany, with Greece, with Italy, and that’s often where the problem is most pronounced in Europe.”
In his speech, Rubio plans to describe left-wing terrorism as “the result of a unique evil rooted in a deep resentment towards civilization,” according to the State Department official. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller are also expected to participate.
The threat of left-wing terrorism “has not really been addressed collectively in an effective way,” the senior State Department official said. According to the official, partners have said they “have a handle” on other forms of political violence but “this one is more difficult for us.”
The senior official cited attacks by members of European Antifa groups, which the administration designated as terrorists last November, as examples of far-left terrorist actions. They did not provide examples from other parts of the world but said they are focused on “violent criminal terrorist acts,” when asked if a leftist protest would be considered a form of far-left terrorism.
However, former officials said the ministerial appears to be a part of the administration’s broader effort to amplify the threat and target those on the political left who oppose Trump’s policies. Several who spoke with CNN said that the reality of the threat from far-left extremists does not match the administration’s portrayal.
“We looked at terrorism of all stripes, including left-wing terrorism, but the reality and the data, both here domestically and abroad, indicate that left-wing extremism is not and has not been the type of threat or the degree of threat that far-right terrorism or extremist violence or jihadist violence have posed,” said Ian Moss, the former deputy coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department under the Biden administration.
Moss, now an attorney with Jenner & Block, noted that there are “other forms of violent ideological extremism, Islamist violence for starters, and then certainly violent right-wing extremists or White identity terrorists, which are a real risk, a real concern domestically and internationally, and one that the administration seems to have not focused on.”
Michael Duffin, a former senior counterterrorism adviser at the State Department, said that “never” in his nine years of working on counterterrorism “had so-called left-wing extremism risen” to a level warranting such high-level focus.
“There’s no violent extremist element, organizational element on the left, that would the expenditure of these resources,” he told CNN. Duffin was among many State Department officials who worked on counterterrorism who were fired last year as part of the administration’s mass firings and overhaul of the department.
Throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has also ramped up domestic pressure against alleged far-left extremists.
Trump designated the anti-fascist movement Antifa as a so-called “domestic terrorist organization.” Despite claims that Antifa is a top concern domestically, law enforcement agencies have struggled to define the amorphous group, its size, locations of chapters and other basic information.
CNN’s Holmes Lybrand contributed to this report.