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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.

December 15, 2015

Wilayat Sinai Risks Backlash After Metrojet Bombing

Zack Gold

The Islamic State Goes Global

Richard Barrett

December 14, 2015

The Paris Attacks and the Evolving Islamic State Threat to France

Jean-Charles Brisard

October 23, 2015

Tunisian Jihadism after the Sousse Massacre

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bridget Moreng

The Ankara Bombings and the Islamic State’s Turkey Strategy

Metin Gurcan

Kunduz Breakthrough Bolsters Mullah Mansoor as Taliban Leader

Saleem Mehsud

The Riddle of the Bangkok Bombings

Zachary Abuza

September 11, 2015

A View from the CT Foxhole: An Interview with Nick Rasmussen, Director, NCTC

Paul Cruickshank

August 21, 2015

Governing The Caliphate: The Islamic State Picture

Laith Alkhouri, Alex Kassirer

Bay`a Remorse? Wilayat Sinai and the Nile Valley

Mokhtar Awad, Samuel Tadros