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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.

December 14, 2018

The Islamic State Inside Iraq: Losing Power or Preserving Strength?

Michael Knights

November 8, 2018

Converging Factors Signal Increasing Terror Threat to Tajikistan

Damon Mehl

The Portugal Connection in the Strasbourg-Marseille Islamic State Terrorist Network

Nuno Tiago Pinto

September 10, 2018

From Caliphate to Caves: The Islamic State’s Asymmetric War in Northern Iraq

Derek Henry Flood

The Houthi War Machine: From Guerrilla War to State Capture

Michael Knights

August 8, 2018

Iran’s Deadly Diplomats

Matthew Levitt

The June 2018 Cologne Ricin Plot: A New Threshold in Jihadi Bio Terror

Florian Flade

June 22, 2018

The 2016 French Female Attack Cell: A Case Study

Robin Simcox

The Surabaya Bombings and the Evolution of the Jihadi Threat in Indonesia

Kirsten E. Schulze

May 24, 2018

The Islamic State Threat to the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Brian Glyn Williams, Robert Troy Souza