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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 28, 2024

The Threat Matrix Facing the Paris Olympics

Petter Nesser, Wassim Nasr

May 30, 2024

Rising Threats to Public Officials: A Review of 10 Years of Federal Data

Pete Simi, Gina Ligon, Seamus Hughes, Natalie Standridge

A View from the CT Foxhole: Ahmad Zia Saraj, Former General Director of the National Directorate of Security of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Paul Cruickshank

From Tajikistan to Moscow and Iran: Mapping the Local and Transnational Threat of Islamic State Khorasan

Amira Jadoon, Abdul Sayed, Lucas Webber, Riccardo Valle

April 30, 2024

The Somali National Army Versus al-Shabaab: A Net Assessment

Paul D. Williams

A View from the CT Foxhole: Colonel (Ret.) Miri Eisin, Director, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)

Sean Morrow, Asher Spain

Assessing the Houthi War Effort Since October 2023

Michael Knights

March 21, 2024

Media Matters: How Operation Shujaa Degraded the Islamic State’s Congolese Propaganda Output

Caleb Weiss, Ryan O’Farrell

January 19, 2024

Is Left-Wing Terrorism Making a Comeback in Germany? Analyzing the “Engel – Guntermann Network”

Christian Jokinen

December 21, 2023

The Path to October 7: How Iran Built Up and Managed a Palestinian ‘Axis of Resistance’

Phillip Smyth