The United States (US) reviewed and maintained the terrorist designations of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), along with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Sinai Peninsula (ISIL-SP) and several other organisations, The Times of India reported on January 17. Days ahead of the transition of power, the US department of state reviewed and maintained the Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) designations of LeJ, ISIL-SP, LeT, Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al Naqshabandi, Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis-Sudan (Ansaru), al-Nusrah Front, Continuity Irish Republican Army, and the National Liberation Army. “Based upon a review of the Administrative Records… I conclude that the circumstances that were the bases for the designations of the aforementioned organisations as Foreign Terrorist Organisations have not changed in such a manner as to warrant revocation of the designations and that the national security of the US does not warrant a revocation of the designations,” secretary of state Mike Pompeo said in a federal register notification published on January 14.