The International Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies published in January 2014 an assessment titled "
Terrorism in North Africa and the Sahel in 2013" by Yonah Alexander, director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. The document provides a regional threat assessment, chronology of terrorism in North, West and Central Africa and case studies on Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Mali.