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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.

July 18, 2019

The Christchurch Attacks: Livestream Terror in the Viral Video Age

Graham Macklin

A View from the CT Foxhole: Catherine De Bolle, Executive Director, Europol

Paul Cruickshank

May 29, 2019

Terrorist Attacks Against Jewish Targets in the West (2012-2019): The Atlantic Divide Between European and American Attackers

Mitchell D. Silber

Terrorism on the Teardrop Island: Understanding the Easter 2019 Attacks in Sri Lanka

Amarnath Amarasingam

April 26, 2019

Reigniting the Rivalry: The Islamic State in Somalia vs. al-Shabaab

Caleb Weiss

Doxing and Defacements: Examining the Islamic State’s Hacking Capabilities

Audrey Alexander, Bennett Clifford

April 19, 2019

The Fragility of the Good Friday Peace: The Persistence of Terrorism in Northern Ireland

Aaron Edwards

March 21, 2019

The Islamic State’s Revitalization in Libya and its Post-2016 War of Attrition

Lachlan Wilson, Jason Pack

Military Interventions, Jihadi Networks, and Terrorist Entrepreneurs: How the Islamic State Terror Wave Rose So High in Europe

Petter Nesser

February 21, 2019

The ELN’s Attack on the National Police Academy in Bogotá and Its Implications

Ross Dayton