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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 21, 2019

A View from the CT Foxhole: Shaun Greenough, Case Strategy and Mentor Supervisor, The Unity Initiative

Paul Cruickshank

A Hollow Victory over the Islamic State in Syria? The High Risk of Jihadi Revival in Deir ez-Zor’s Euphrates River Valley

Hassan Hassan

January 16, 2019

A View from the CT Foxhole: Rebecca Weiner, Assistant Commissioner for Intelligence Analysis, NYPD, and Meghann Teubner, Director of Counterterrorism Intelligence Analysis, NYPD

Paul Cruickshank

December 14, 2018

United States v. Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab: A Case Study on Transnational Prosecutions of Jihadi Foreign Fighter Networks

Bennett Clifford, Seamus Hughes

No End in Sight for the al-Shabaab Threat to Somalia

Harun Maruf, Dan Joseph

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