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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 10, 2014

The Battle for Kobani Comes to the Fore

Derek Henry Flood

October 31, 2014

Boko Haram’s Regional Cross-Border Activities

Scott Menner

Boko Haram: Recruitment, Financing, and Arms Trafficking in the Lake Chad Region

Jacob Zenn

September 29, 2014

The Combat Performance of Hamas in the Gaza War of 2014

Jeffrey White

Profiles of Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq

Evan F. Kohlmann, Laith Alkhouri

August 27, 2014

The Pakistani Taliban’s Campaign Against Polio Vaccination

Animesh Roul

July 30, 2014

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s Role in Attacks in Pakistan

Anne Stenersen

May 29, 2014

Al-Hijra: Al-Shabab’s Affiliate in Kenya

Fredrick Nzes

The ISIL’s Stand in the Ramadi-Falluja Corridor

Michael Knights

April 28, 2014

Mexico’s Vigilante Militias Rout the Knights Templar Drug Cartel

Ioan Grillo