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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.

February 24, 2014

Religious Violence in Tunisia Three Years after the Revolution

Anne Wolf

The In Amenas Attack in the Context of Southern Algeria’s Growing Social Unrest

Hannah Armstrong

Al-Shabab’s Capabilities Post-Westgate

Ken Menkhaus

The Future Role of U.S. Counterterrorism Operations in Africa

Michael A. Sheehan, Geoff D. Porter

January 15, 2014

Is AQAP to Blame for the String of Assassinations in Yemen?

Casey L. Coombs, Hannah Poppy

Attacks in the Suez: Security of the Canal at Risk?

Stephen Starr

October 24, 2013

The Battle for Syria’s Al-Hasakah Province

Nicholas A. Heras

Kirkuk’s Multidimensional Security Crisis

Derek Henry Flood

The Nairobi Attack and Al-Shabab’s Media Strategy

Christopher Anzalone

August 27, 2013

The Battle for Qusayr: How the Syrian Regime and Hizb Allah Tipped the Balance

Nicholas Blanford