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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 17, 2016

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

January 19, 2016

The Jakarta Attack and the Islamic State Threat to Indonesia

Kirsten E. Schulze

The Hotel Attacks and Militant Realignment in the Sahara-Sahel Region

Andrew Lebovich

Hezbollah’s Calculus after the Iran Nuclear Deal

Magnus Ranstorp

The Global Terror Threat in 2016: A Forecast

Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon

December 15, 2015

The Beirut Bombings and the Islamic State’s Threat to Lebanon

Hassan Rabih

San Bernardino and the Islamic State Footprint in America

Lorenzo Vidino, Seamus Hughes

The Islamic State in Southern Syria

Aaron Y. Zelin, Oula A. Alrifai

Profile: Paris Attack Ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud

Guy van Vlierden