The United States and Canada both moved Tuesday to designate Samidoun as a terrorist entity, following Germany, which banned the group last year, and the Netherlands, which banned it last week.

Organizations like Samidoun masquerade as charitable actors that claim to provide humanitarian support to those in need, yet in reality divert funds... to support terrorist groups,” the U.S. Treasury Department said.

The government of Canada has designated the group Samidoun as a terrorist entity in a joint action with the U.S., both governments announced Tuesday.