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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.

November 20, 2020

Outlasting the Caliphate: The Evolution of the Islamic State Threat in Africa

Jason Warner, Ryan O’Farrell, Héni Nsaibia, Ryan Cummings

October 22, 2020

Twenty Years after the USS Cole Attack: The Search for Justice

Pete Erickson, Seth Loertscher, David C. Lane, Paul Erickson

Jihadi Insurgency in Mozambique Grows in Sophistication and Reach

Tim Lister

August 31, 2020

The Islamic State’s Strategic Trajectory in Africa: Key Takeaways from its Attack Claims

Tomasz Rolbiecki, Pieter Van Ostaeyen, Charlie Winter

July 31, 2020

The Threat from Europe’s Jihadi Prisoners and Prison Leavers

Robin Simcox, Hannah Stuart

May 29, 2020

Reviewing Iran’s Proxies by Region: A Look Toward the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa

Nakissa Jahanbani

The Controller: How Basil Hassan Launched Islamic State Terror into the Skies

Mette Mayli Albæk, Puk Damsgård, Mahmoud Shiekh Ibrahim, Troels Kingo, Jens Vithner

May 26, 2020

Remaining and Expanding: The Recovery of Islamic State Operations in Iraq in 2019-2020

Michael Knights, Alex Almeida

May 21, 2020

The 2017 Manchester Bombing and the British-Libyan Jihadi Nexus

Eran Benedek, Neil Simon

April 28, 2020

Operation Silves: Inside the 2017 Islamic State Sydney Plane Plot

Andrew Zammit