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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.

May 29, 2014

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

AQIM’s Threat to Western Interests in the Sahel

Samuel L. Aronson

March 26, 2014

The Evolution of the Ethnic Baluch Insurgency in Iran

Chris Zambelis

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