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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 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

March 24, 2020

The Pensacola Terrorist Attack: The Enduring Influence of al-Qa`ida and its Affiliates

Colin Clarke

A View from the CT Foxhole: Jonathan Evans, Former Director General, MI5

Raffaello Pantucci

The Hanau Terrorist Attack: How Race Hate and Conspiracy Theories Are Fueling Global Far-Right Violence

Blyth Crawford, Florence Keen

February 27, 2020

“Breaking the Walls” Goes Global: The Evolving Threat of Jihadi Prison Assaults and Riots

Bennett Clifford, Caleb Weiss

The Cyber Threat from Iran after the Death of Soleimani

Annie Fixler

“Fighters Without Borders”—Forecasting New Trends in Iran Threat Network Foreign Operations Tradecraft

Matthew Levitt

December 18, 2019

The 2016 Copenhagen ‘Matchstick’ Terror Plot and the Evolving Transnational Character of Terrorism in the West

Tore Hamming