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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.

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

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