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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.

February 27, 2020

“Fighters Without Borders”—Forecasting New Trends in Iran Threat Network Foreign Operations Tradecraft

Matthew Levitt

December 18, 2019

The 2016 Copenhagen ‘Matchstick’ Terror Plot and the Evolving Transnational Character of Terrorism in the West

Tore Hamming

The Halle, Germany, Synagogue Attack and the Evolution of the Far-Right Terror Threat

Daniel Koehler

The El Paso Terrorist Attack: The Chain Reaction of Global Right-Wing Terror

Graham Macklin

October 10, 2019

Russia’s Battlefield Success in Syria: Will It Be a Pyrrhic Victory?

Seth Jones

September 10, 2019

Relatives, Redemption, and Rice: Motivations for Joining the Maute Group

Julie Chernov Hwang

Taking Aim: Islamic State Khorasan’s Leadership Losses

Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines

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