Military assassinations

Mexican revolutionary (1879–1919)

Honduran environmental activist

2020 US drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq

On 28 February 2026, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was assassinated in Tehran as part of a series of Israeli airstrikes aimed at high-ranking Iranian officials. Khamenei's death was confirmed by the Iranian government on 1 March. His death occurred as part of a wider joint operation by the United States and Israel, using strategic locations intelligence from the US's Central Intelligence Agency to determine the whereabouts of several leaders. Satellite imagery suggested that Khamenei's residence in the city was severely damaged during the attack.

The Sicarii were a group of Jewish assassins who were active throughout Judaea in the years leading up to and during the First Jewish–Roman War, which took place at the end of the Second Temple period. Often associated with the Zealots (although this relationship is uncertain), they conducted a high-profile campaign of targeted assassinations of Romans and of Jews who collaborated with them. They later became notorious for a reported mass suicide during the Siege of Masada. The group's signature weapon and namesake was a type of large dagger known as a sica, which they concealed in their cloak

1979 Soviet assassination of Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin

Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon on 27 Sept. 2024

war fought between 1896 and 1897 in the area then known as Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

group of mainly Bolivian and Cuban guerrillas led by Ernesto Guevara which was active in the Cordillera Province, Bolivia from 1966 to 1967

2026 assassination

2024 attack in Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes on 13 July 2024

Israeli airstrike

special operation by soldiers of the Czechoslovak army-in-exile during WW2

alleged Russian military program of paid assassinations

Israeli airstrike

assassination (successful) by soldiers of the special unit "Pegaz" (Home Army) of the SS and Police commander in the District Warsaw of the General Governor Franz Kutschera (Aleje Ujazdowskie, Warsaw, Poland; 1944)