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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 10, 2019

Relatives, Redemption, and Rice: Motivations for Joining the Maute Group

Julie Chernov Hwang

Taking Aim: Islamic State Khorasan’s Leadership Losses

Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines

July 18, 2019

The Christchurch Attacks: Livestream Terror in the Viral Video Age

Graham Macklin

A View from the CT Foxhole: Catherine De Bolle, Executive Director, Europol

Paul Cruickshank

May 29, 2019

Terrorist Attacks Against Jewish Targets in the West (2012-2019): The Atlantic Divide Between European and American Attackers

Mitchell D. Silber

Terrorism on the Teardrop Island: Understanding the Easter 2019 Attacks in Sri Lanka

Amarnath Amarasingam

April 26, 2019

Reigniting the Rivalry: The Islamic State in Somalia vs. al-Shabaab

Caleb Weiss

Doxing and Defacements: Examining the Islamic State’s Hacking Capabilities

Audrey Alexander, Bennett Clifford

April 19, 2019

The Fragility of the Good Friday Peace: The Persistence of Terrorism in Northern Ireland

Aaron Edwards

March 21, 2019

The Islamic State’s Revitalization in Libya and its Post-2016 War of Attrition

Lachlan Wilson, Jason Pack