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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.

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May 29, 2020

The Controller: How Basil Hassan Launched Islamic State Terror into the Skies

Mette Mayli Albæk, Puk Damsgård, Mahmoud Shiekh Ibrahim, Troels Kingo, Jens Vithner

May 26, 2020

Remaining and Expanding: The Recovery of Islamic State Operations in Iraq in 2019-2020

Michael Knights, Alex Almeida

May 21, 2020

The 2017 Manchester Bombing and the British-Libyan Jihadi Nexus

Eran Benedek, Neil Simon

April 28, 2020

Operation Silves: Inside the 2017 Islamic State Sydney Plane Plot

Andrew Zammit

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