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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 25, 2021

A View from the CT Foxhole: Mary McCord, Executive Director, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown University Law Center

Audrey Alexander, Kristina Hummel

February 18, 2021

The Evolution of the Boogaloo Movement

Matthew Kriner, Jon Lewis

January 14, 2021

The April 2020 Islamic State Terror Plot Against U.S. and NATO Military Bases in Germany: The Tajik Connection

Nodirbek Soliev

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