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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.

September 11, 2024

Islamic State-Somalia: A Growing Global Terror Concern

Caleb Weiss, Lucas Webber

Commentary: The Global Jihadi Terror Threat in September 2024

Edmund Fitton-Brown

August 13, 2024

A ‘Hotbed’ or a Slow, Painful Burn? Explaining Central Asia’s Role in Global Terrorism

Noah Tucker, Edward Lemon

June 28, 2024

Protecting Major Sporting Events from Terrorism: Considerations for the Paris Olympics and Beyond

Alexandre Rodde, David Mcilhatton, John Cuddihy, Rachel Monaghan

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