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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 16, 2016

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

A Caliphate under Strain: The Documentary Evidence

Aymenn Al-Tamimi

March 17, 2016

The Islamic State Threat to Britain: Evidence from Recent Terror Trials

Raffaello Pantucci

Losing Territory and Lashing Out: The Islamic State and International Terror

Andrew Watkins

February 19, 2016

The Military Doctrine of the Islamic State and the Limits of Ba’athist Influence

Barak Barfi