Canada lists four extremist, insurgent groups as foreign terrorist entities

Canada's Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada May 28, 2025. REUTERS/Blair Gable

TORONTO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Canada has added four transnational extremist and insurgent groups to its list of foreign terrorist entities, Canada's Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said in a statement on Wednesday.

In a statement, the government said was adding 764, Maniac Murder Cult and Terrorgram Collective, calling them "transnational ideologically motivated violent extremist networks" that target young people in particular. It also added Islamic State-Mozambique, an affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; editing by Susan Heavey)