Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited senior officials from more than 60 countries to Washington next week for a high-level meeting focused on what the Trump administration calls a growing transnational threat from far-left terrorism.

The July 16 gathering at the State Department will include ministers and counterterrorism officials from Europe, Latin America, and Asia to discuss intelligence sharing and coordinated law enforcement action against far-left extremist groups. A concept paper for the meeting describes these groups as “increasingly turning to organized, deadly violence to advance their political objectives.”

The administration has pointed to incidents such as the recent violent protest outside an ICE facility in Texas — where several Antifa-linked defendants received lengthy prison sentences after a police officer was shot — as examples of the escalating danger. White House counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka has also floated the possibility of applying foreign terrorist designations to certain Antifa-linked networks.

President Trump previously signed an executive order labeling Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, and the administration’s national counterterrorism strategy explicitly identifies violent left-wing extremists as a priority alongside narco-terrorists and Islamist threats.

While some foreign governments and analysts question the scale of the threat compared to other dangers, Rubio is moving forward with building an international coalition to address what the administration sees as a clear and coordinated resurgence of far-left political violence.