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National parties
Afghanistan
- Awami National Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Islamic Party of Afghanistan [r]: A Pashtun-dominated Afghan political party, split into factions variously part of the government (Hezb-i-Islam) under Yunis Khalis versus Hezb-i-Islam Gulbuddin under Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (HIG), which cooperates with the Taliban [e]
- Khalq [r]: Add brief definition or description
Iraq
- Assyrian Democratic Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Independent Democratic Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraqi Communist Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraqi National Accord [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraqi National Congress [r]: An Iraqi political party, originally in exile, headed by Ahmed Chalabi; does not have any current seats in the National Assembly [e]
- Iraqi Party of God [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iraqi Islamic Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Islamic Dawa Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kurdish Democratic Party [r]: One of the two major political parties of Iraqi Kurdistan. Its leader, Massoud Barzani, heads the Kurdistan Regional Government. [e]
- Kurdistan Islamic Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kurdish Socialist Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [r]: One of the two major political movements of Iraqi Kurdistan, opposed to Saddam Hussein and now active in new government; its leader, Jalal Talabani, is President of Iraq [e]
- National Democratic Party of Iraq [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq [r]: A major Shi'a political faction in Iraq [e]
India
Israel
- Balad [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Democratic Front for Peace and Equality [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kach [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kadima [r]: A centrist political party in Israel, now in the Opposition, headed by Tzipi Livni [e]
- Jewish Home [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Labor Party (Israel) [r]: Center-left political party of the State of Israel, headed by Ehud Barak [e]
- Likud [r]: Headed by Prime Minister and ruling coalition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, a center-right political party of the State of Israel [e]
- National Union (Israel) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- New Movement-Meretz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Arab List-Ta'al [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Torah Judaism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yisrael Beiteinu [r]: Hebrew for "Our Home is Israel", a right-wing Israeli political party, dominated by Russian immigrants and having a policy not only of distrusting Palestinians but Israeli Arab citizens; its head is Foreign Minister of Israel Avigdor Lieberman [e]
Mexico
- Partido Acción Nacional [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Partido Revolucionario Institucional [r]: Add brief definition or description
Pakistan
- Jamaat-i-Islami [r]: Pakistan's oldest Islamist religious party, marginal in national politics but more powerful in the semi-autonomous frontier provinces; possibly affiliated with the Taliban [e]
- Jamiat-ul-Ulama-i-Islam [r]: A Deoband Islamist and Pashtun, although not separatist, opposition party of Pakistan, with its greatest strength in the Balochistan Province and Northwest Frontier Province [e]
- Pakistan People's Party [r]: Currently the ruling party of Pakistan, a center-left Islamist political party launched by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1967; espoused socialism in its early days, but has since become more populist; has always had strong associations with the Bhutto family. [e]
South Africa
- Afrikaner Party [r]: A South African political party from 1941 to 1951 [e]
- African National Congress [r]: A South African social movement organization (1912-1994) and political party (1994-present) [e]
- Het Volk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Labour Party (South Africa) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Party (South Africa) [r]: A South African political party, known especially for its implementation of apartheid. [e]
- Orangia Unie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- South African Party [r]: A South African political party that existed from 1910 until 1934 [e]
- Union Party (South Africa) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Party [r]: A major political party in South Africa from 1934 to 1977. [e]
United Kingdom
- Conservative Party (United Kingdom [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Labor Party (United Kingdom [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liberal Democratic Party (United Kingdom) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Party of Wales [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scottish National Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sinn Fein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social Democratic and Labor Party or SDLP (Northern Ireland) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ulster Unionist Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States
- U.S. Democratic Party [r]: One of the two major political parties in the United States; usually described as center-left. [e]
- U.S. Republican Party [r]: One of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; center-right; the elephant is its symbol [e]
- U.S. Green Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Reform Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
