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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.

June 22, 2018

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

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