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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.

April 13, 2018

A View from the CT Foxhole: Five Years After the Boston Marathon Bombing

Nicholas Tallant

March 29, 2018

Ansaroul Islam and the Growing Terrorist Insurgency in Burkina Faso

Héni Nsaibia, Caleb Weiss

Black Banners in Somalia: The State of al-Shabaab’s Territorial Insurgency and the Specter of the Islamic State

Christopher Anzalone

The Terrorist Calculus in Kidnapping Girls in Nigeria: Cases from Chibok and Dapchi

Jacob Zenn

February 15, 2018

A View from the CT Foxhole: Neil Basu, Senior National Coordinator for Counterterrorism Policing in the United Kingdom

Raffaello Pantucci

January 24, 2018

A View from the CT Foxhole: Nicholas Rasmussen, Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

Paul Cruickshank

“Spaniards, You Are Going to Suffer:” The Inside Story of the August 2017 Attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils

Fernando Reinares, Carola García-Calvo

December 21, 2017

The Islamic State’s Libyan External Operations Hub: The Picture So Far

Johannes Saal

Violent Extremism among Central Asians: The Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, and New York City Attacks

Goktug Sonmez

October 18, 2017

The Cybercoaching of Terrorists: Cause for Alarm?

John Mueller