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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 22, 2016

The Hard March to Mosul: A Frontline Report

Derek Henry Flood

July 27, 2016

The Islamic State Threat to Germany: Evidence from the Investigations

Florian Flade

June 16, 2016

A View from the CT Foxhole: Vassilios Kikilias, Greece’s Former Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection

Charles Kim, Paul Cruickshank

The Greek Gateway to Jihad

Ioannis Mantzikos

The Road to Orlando: Jihadist-Inspired Violence in the West, 2012-2016

Sam Mullins

Belgian Radical Networks and the Road to the Brussels Attacks

Pieter Van Ostaeyen

May 25, 2016

A View from the CT Foxhole: Brigadier General Donald C. Bolduc, Commander, Special Operations Command Africa

Brian Dodwell

May 19, 2016

The Evolving Challenges for Explosive Detection in the Aviation Sector and Beyond

Robert Liscouski, William McGann

April 22, 2016

The Islamic State’s Pyramid Scheme: Egyptian Expansion and the Giza Governorate Cell

Mokhtar Awad

The Kingdom’s Perfect Storm: Sectarian Tension and Terrorism in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province

Chris Zambelis