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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 30, 2024

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

May 3, 2011

Ali Soufan Cites Deadly Vanguards Report in NYTimes Op-Ed

Scott Helfstein

May 10, 2010

Times Square bomb: Did Pakistan Taliban send its ‘C’ team?

April 22, 2010

CTC-FDNY-HBO Panel and Presenation of “Terror in Mumbai” Documentary

Ambassador Michael Sheehan, John Abizaid, Reid Sawyer

February 2, 2010

Dr. Scott Helfstein on Fox News