The meeting was aimed at garnering international support to combat what the State Department described as “the resurgent threat” of such terrorism.
“This is an international conference because we are facing an international—we are facing a transnational threat,” he went on, adding, “We have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them.”
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In attendance at Thursday’s event were 66 nations, according to a State Department spokesperson, who provided the list of attendants to TIME.
What Trump Administration officials said
In his opening remarks, Rubio contended that left-wing extremism has been the subject of a “blind spot” and “extraordinary ideological prejudice” in the study and discussion of political violence.
“This was something worse than a double standard. Left-wing violence was not just excused, it was treated as sacrosanct, a protected class unto itself,” he said. “That era has to end.” He argued that the international community must come together and rebuild its counterterrorism infrastructure to combat such violence like it did to counter “radical Islamist extremism” earlier in the 21st century.
“We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization. If the left is allowed to use the real or actual threat of violence to destabilize our institutions, then those institutions cannot and will not succeed,” he said.
The White House touted the conference in a press release on Thursday.
Data show right-wing extremists commit more deadly attacks—though left-wing incidents are rising
The Trump Administration officials’ remarks on Thursday echo prior comments from President Donald Trump and his allies placing blame on left-wing extremists for increasing political violence in the U.S.
A September 2025 study from the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute found that in the last five years, 81 people had been killed due to political violence in the U.S. and right-wing terrorists were responsible for 54% of those deaths. Islamists were responsible for another 21% of the deaths, per the study, and left-wing terrorists for 22%.
An analysis published in the journal of the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department’s research agency, in 2024 similarly found that based on the agency’s studies, far-right extremists had committed “far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists” since 1990, including 520 deaths across 227 incidents, while far-left extremists were responsible for 78 deaths across 42 attacks during the same period.
That study also found, however, that left-wing attacks have been rising in the U.S. in recent years—and that in 2025, for the first time in its data, there were more left-wing incidents than those associated with the right-wing.
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