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Operations, Plots & Attacks

Learn more about specific terrorist operations, plots, and attacks through the case studies, profiles, and lessons learned articles that we have produced.

November 28, 2023

The Beginning of a New Wave? The Hamas-Israel War and the Terror Threat in the West

Tore Hamming

The Road to October 7: Hamas’ Long Game, Clarified

Devorah Margolin, Matthew Levitt

August 30, 2023

The Enduring Duel: Islamic State Khorasan’s Survival under Afghanistan’s New Rulers

Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines, Abdul Sayed

July 26, 2023

Guns, Drugs, and Smugglers: A Recent Heightened Challenge at Israel’s Borders with Jordan and Egypt

Matthew Levitt, Lauren von Thaden

June 23, 2023

The Allen, Texas, Attack: Ideological Fuzziness and the Contemporary Nature of Far-Right Violence

Ashley A. Mattheis, Amarnath Amarasingam, Graham Macklin, Marc-André Argentino

May 23, 2023

The Targeting of Infrastructure by America’s Violent Far-Right

Colin Clarke, Mollie Saltskog, Michaela Millender, Naureen C. Fink

March 23, 2023

The Prisoner Dilemma: Insurrectionary Anarchism and the Cospito Affair

Francesco Marone

The December 2022 German Reichsbürger Plot to Overthrow the German Government

Alexander Ritzmann

December 19, 2022

A View from the CT Foxhole: Harun Maruf, Senior Editor, Voice of America Somali

Paul Cruickshank

August 9, 2022

The Death of Ayman al-Zawahiri: Succession Challenges, Tradeoffs, and Other Implications

Don Rassler, Muhammad al-`Ubaydi