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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.

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

Hizb Allah’s Gambit in Syria

Matthew Levitt, Aaron Y. Zelin

July 23, 2013

Anti-Muslim Attacks in Myanmar Threaten Uptick in Regional Violence and Islamist Activism

James Brandon

Fire as a Weapon in Terrorist Attacks

Joseph W. Pfeifer

June 25, 2013

The Renewed Threat of Terrorism to Turkey