U.S. to press allies to bolster counterterrorism efforts under new strategy

Washington — U.S. counterterrorism officials volition conscionable with planetary partners connected Friday to inquire however allies tin boost efforts to combat violent threats, particularly from Iran and successful the Strait of Hormuz, a White House authoritative said.

A caller counterterrorism strategy, signed by President Trump connected Tuesday, seeks to ace down connected Islamist panic groups, cause cartels and convulsive home governmental groups. 

Seb Gorka, the elder manager for counterterrorism astatine the White House National Security Council, told reporters that the U.S. volition beryllium seeking much from allied countries that privation to beryllium viewed arsenic "serious" nations. 

"We person a precise elemental metric: if you privation to beryllium measured arsenic a superior nation, whether it is protecting tankers successful the Strait of Hormuz oregon whether it is moving against jihadi threats successful the Sahel of Africa, we expect much from you. The thought that determination is 1 hyper-power successful the world, America, and it volition support each from each threat, is untenable. We cull the conception of planetary constabulary officer," Gorka said. 

"We volition beryllium discussing the caller counterterrorism strategy and moving unneurotic to say, 'OK, however tin you measurement up to the sheet successful ways which complement what we privation to achieve?'"

Sebastian Gorka, lawman adjunct to the President and elder manager for counterterrorism, astatine the White House connected Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Gorka outlined the United States' caller 16-page strategy, saying it prioritizes cause cartels and Islamist panic groups, arsenic good arsenic convulsive governmental groups whose ideologies are "anti-American, radically pro-gender oregon anarchist, specified arsenic antifa."

He declined to picture classified steps that volition beryllium taken, but said the medication volition enactment to place threats — and leaders and followers of convulsive oregon violent groups — and neutralize them by instrumentality enforcement efforts, kinetic means oregon by strangling their fiscal resources.

The strategy aims to incapacitate cartels until they tin nary longer bring drugs oregon trafficking victims into the U.S., Gorka said.

The medication volition enactment unit connected the apical 5 Islamist jihadi groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been designated arsenic a overseas violent organization, until they tin nary longer enlistee terrorists, Gorka said. He said "stragglers" from ISIS successful Syria and Iran person relocated to African nations, seeking "ungoverned space."

The U.S. strategy besides aims to cripple left-wing extremist efforts earlier guiltless Christians and conservatives are killed, helium said. It isn't targeted astatine circumstantial labeled groups, Gorka added, but targets anyone who thinks unit for governmental purposes is justified.

Gorka said: "We spot a threat, we volition respond to it, and we volition crush it, whether it is the cartels, the jihadists, oregon convulsive left-wing extremists similar antifa and similar the transgender killers, the non-binary, the left-wing radicals who killed my person Charlie Kirk." 

"We volition not licence politically motivated unit successful the United States from either broadside of the aisle, but the bittersweet information is the near has acold much politically motivated assassinations oregon attempted assassinations, to its recognition successful caller years, not the right."