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Assassination of Agha Mohammad Khan
The assassination of Agha Mohammad Khan (قتل آقامحمدخان) was the killing of the Qajar shah by three condemned servants at Shusha fortress in Karabakh in June 1797.
Assassination of Ahmad
The Assassination of Ahmad (阿合马被刺案) was the 1282 killing of Khubilai Khan's finance minister Ahmad in Dadu by Wang Zhu and Gao Heshang, who posed as the crown prince.
Assassination of Ahmad ibn Isma'il
The Assassination of Ahmad ibn Isma'il (اغتيال أحمد بن إسماعيل) was the 913 murder of the Samanid amir Ahmad by his Turkish palace guards at Farabr.
Assassination of Ahmad Maher Pasha
The assassination of Ahmad Maher Pasha (اغتيال أحمد ماهر) killed Egypt's prime minister in Cairo on 24 February 1945, moments after he read the declaration of war on the Axis.
Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud
Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud (9 September 2001): al-Qaeda suicide bombers posing as journalists killed the Northern Alliance commander at Khwaja Bahauddin, Takhar, two days before 9/11.
Assassination of al-Amir
The Assassination of al-Amir (مقتل الأمير بأحكام الله) was the killing of al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah, the tenth Fatimid caliph, by Nizari assassins at Cairo in 1130.
Assassination of al-Ashraf Khalil
The assassination of al-Ashraf Khalil (اغتيال الأشرف خليل) was the murder of the Mamluk sultan of Egypt, conqueror of Acre, by amirs led by Baydara in December 1293.
Assassination of al-Mutawakkil
The Assassination of al-Mutawakkil (اغتيال المتوكل) was the murder of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by his Turkish guardsmen at Samarra on 11 December 861, beginning the Anarchy at Samarra.
Assassination of Albrecht von Wallenstein
The assassination of Albrecht von Wallenstein was the killing of the deposed imperial generalissimo, Duke of Friedland, by officers loyal to Emperor Ferdinand II at Eger on 25 February 1634.
Assassination of Alexander II
The Assassination of Alexander II (Убийство Александра II) was the killing of the Russian emperor by bomb-throwers of People's Will in Saint Petersburg on 13 March 1881.
Assassination of Ali
Assassination of Ali: the Kharijite Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam fatally struck the fourth caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib (علي بن أبي طالب) with a poisoned weapon at Kufa's mosque in 40 AH (661 CE), part of a three-man plot, leading to Mu'awiya's Umayyad caliphate.
Assassination of Ali Khamenei
Assassination of Ali Khamenei, the killing of Iran's supreme leader on 28 February 2026 in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on his Tehran compound opening the 2026 Iran war; his son Mojtaba succeeded him a week later.
Assassination of Ali Larijani (علی لاریجانی)
Assassination of Ali Larijani (علی لاریجانی), Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary and post-Khamenei de facto leader, killed with his son in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran on March 17, 2026.
Assassination of Alp Arslan
The assassination of Alp Arslan (مقتل ألب أرسلان) was the killing of the Seljuk sultan in 1072, stabbed by the captive castellan Yusuf al-Khwarazmi during his Transoxiana campaign.
Assassination of Álvaro Obregón
The assassination of Álvaro Obregón was the killing of Mexico's president-elect by Catholic militant José de León Toral at a Mexico City restaurant on 17 July 1928.
Assassination of Amenemhat I
The assassination of Amenemhat I was the murder of the founder of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty in a palace conspiracy by his own court and guard, in regnal year 30.
Assassination of Amílcar Cabral
The assassination of Amílcar Cabral was the killing of the PAIGC secretary-general outside his Conakry home on 20 January 1973, by PAIGC dissidents linked to Portuguese services.
Assassination of Andrei Karlov
Assassination of Andrei Karlov, Russian ambassador to Turkey, shot dead 19 December 2016 in Ankara by off-duty police officer Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş during an art exhibition; Turkey blamed the Gülen movement while Russia doubted the investigation.
Assassination of Andriy Parubiy
The assassination of Andriy Parubiy (Андрій Парубій) was the fatal shooting of the Ukrainian politician in Lviv on 30 August 2025, widely linked to Russia.
Assassination of Ante Pavelić
Failed 10 April 1957 shooting of Ustaša leader Ante Pavelić in Lomas del Palomar, Argentina; attributed to UDBA or Blagoje Jovović; he fled to Spain and died of wounds in 1959.
Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Assassination of Anwar Sadat: the October 6, 1981 killing of Egypt's president by Egyptian Islamic Jihad officers led by Khaled al-Islambouli during a Cairo military parade, following his 1979 Israel peace treaty and September 1981 crackdown.
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo assassination, 28 June 1914, also called the Sarajevo incident: Gavrilo Princip of Young Bosnia, armed via Serbia's Black Hand, shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, triggering the July Crisis and World War I.
Assassination of Aung San
Assassination of Aung San, also called the 19 July 1947 Martyrs' Day killings: gunmen loyal to U Saw killed Burma's independence leader Aung San, six Executive Council colleagues, and two others in Rangoon; U Saw was tried and hanged, and Burma still gained independence in 1948.
Assassination of Bachir Gemayel
Assassination of Bachir Gemayel, also spelled Bashir Gemayel: Lebanon's president-elect, 34, killed by a bomb at the Phalangist Party office in Ashrafieh, East Beirut, September 14, 1982, nine days before taking office; attributed to Syrian intelligence via Habib Chartouny.
Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, 27 December 2007, Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh: suicide bombing and gunfire killed Pakistan's former prime minister and 24 others; UN inquiry found preventable security failures.
Assassination of Bijjala
The assassination of Bijjala (बिज्जल की हत्या) was the killing of the Kalachuri ruler of Kalyani, traditionally dated to 1167 or 1168 and attributed to Jagadeva.
Assassination of Bimbisara
The assassination of Bimbisara (बिंबिसार की हत्या) was the deposition, imprisonment, and death of Bimbisara, king of Magadha, at the hands of his son Ajatashatru around 492 BC.
Assassination of Brihadratha
The assassination of Brihadratha (पुष्यमित्र शुंग द्वारा बृहद्रथ की हत्या) was the killing of the last Maurya emperor by his commander-in-chief Pushyamitra, who then took the throne.
Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk, 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder, was fatally shot by a rooftop sniper at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025; Tyler Robinson was charged and faces the death penalty.
Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat
The assassination of Conrad of Montferrat was the killing of the newly elected king of Jerusalem by two Nizari Ismaili Assassins in Tyre on 28 April 1192.