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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.

August 16, 2017

Britain on Alert: The Attacks in London and Manchester and the Evolving Threat

Raffaello Pantucci

June 27, 2017

Terror in Tehran: The Islamic State Goes to War with the Islamic Republic

Chris Zambelis

Crossing the Canal: Why Egypt Faces a Creeping Insurgency

Michael Horton

The Battle for Raqqa and the Challenges after Liberation

Hassan Hassan

May 4, 2017

Lessons Learned from the Police Response to the San Bernardino and Orlando Terrorist Attacks

Frank Straub, Jennifer Zeunik, Ben Gorban

A View from the CT Foxhole: James A. Gagliano, Former FBI Hostage Rescue Team Counterterrorist Operator

Paul Cruickshank

April 14, 2017

Fifteen Years after the Djerba Synagogue Bombing

Aaron Y. Zelin

Defeat by Annihilation: Mobility and Attrition in the Islamic State’s Defense of Mosul

Michael Knights, Alexander Mello

March 10, 2017

The Reina Nightclub Attack and the Islamic State Threat to Turkey

Ahmet S. Yayla

Australian Jihadism in the Age of the Islamic State

Andrew Zammit