Most Dangerous Terrorist Groups in the World

Hamas:

Hamas is an Islamic political party that governs the Gaza Strip. It also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Since June 2007 Hamas has governed the Gaza portion of the Palestinian Territories, after it won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections. They later defeated the Fatah political organization in a series of violent clashes. The European Union, the U.S., Canada, Israel and Japan classify Hamas as a terrorist organization, while the Arab nations and countries such as Russia and Turkey do not.

Hamas was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Co-founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin stated in 1987 and the Hamas Charter affirmed in 1988 that the group was founded to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.