Weapons & Tactics

Gun. Knife. Bomb. Vehicle-Ramming. Suicide Attack. Mixed Method Assault. Terrorists face a variety of choices when it comes to weapons and tactics. Learn more about trade-offs and specific preferences.

August 8, 2018

The June 2018 Cologne Ricin Plot: A New Threshold in Jihadi Bio Terror

Florian Flade

May 24, 2018

The Islamic State Threat to the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Brian Glyn Williams, Robert Troy Souza

March 29, 2018

Islamic State Chemical Weapons: A Case Contained by its Context?

Markus K. Binder, Jillian M. Quigley, Herbert F. Tinsley

February 15, 2018

A View from the CT Foxhole: Neil Basu, Senior National Coordinator for Counterterrorism Policing in the United Kingdom

Raffaello Pantucci

January 24, 2018

The Evolution of Shi`a Insurgency in Bahrain

Michael Knights, Matthew Levitt

“Spaniards, You Are Going to Suffer:” The Inside Story of the August 2017 Attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils

Fernando Reinares, Carola García-Calvo

November 27, 2017

Foreign Technology or Local Expertise? Al-Shabaab’s IED Capability

Daisy Muibu, Benjamin P. Nickels

October 16, 2017

A View from the CT Foxhole: Lisa Monaco, Former Assistant to President Barack Obama for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

Paul Cruickshank

August 16, 2017

The Mujahidat Dilemma: Female Combatants and the Islamic State

Charlie Winter, Devorah Margolin

June 27, 2017

Crossing the Canal: Why Egypt Faces a Creeping Insurgency

Michael Horton