This is a list of assassinations which took place on the continent of Asia.
For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| February 20, 1919 | Habibullah Khan, emir of Afghanistan | | |
| November 8, 1933 | Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan[1] | Abdul Khaliq Hazara | |
| April 28, 1978 | Mohammed Daoud Khan, president of Afghanistan | | Killed in communist coup |
| February 14, 1979 | Adolph Dubs, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan[2] | | |
| September 14, 1979 | Nur Mohammad Taraki, communist president | | Said to have been smothered to death with a pillow on the orders of Hafizullah Amin |
| December 27, 1979 | Hafizullah Amin, communist Prime Minister of Afghanistan | | Killed by Soviet forces in the early stages of the Soviet–Afghan War |
| February 4, 1987 | Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan | | |
| September 27, 1996 | Mohammed Najibullah, president of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992 | | Killed by the Taliban during the capture of Kabul |
| September 9, 2001 | Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance | | |
| October 26, 2001 | Abdul Haq, Afghan Northern Alliance commander | | Killed by remnants of the Taliban |
| November 2001 | Mohammed Atef, alleged military chief of al-Qaeda | | Killed in a U.S. drone strike |
| 2001 | Juma Namangani, co-founder of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan | | |
| July 6, 2002 | Abdul Qadir, vice-president of Afghanistan | | |
| February 14, 2002 | Abdul Rahman, Afghan Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism | | |
| May 12, 2007 | Dadullah, Taliban's senior military commander | | |
| May 3, 2007 | Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan | | |
| August 27, 2009 | Tohir Yo'ldosh, co-founder of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan | | Killed in a U.S. drone strike |
| September 20, 2011 | Burhanuddin Rabbani, former President of Afghanistan | | Assassinated, possibly members of the Taliban or the Haqqani network, while leading peace negotiations between the internationally recognized Afghan government of Hamid Karzai and the Taliban |
| July 12, 2011 | Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai | Sardar Mohammad | Shot twice in the head and chest by his security guard as he was coming out of his bathroom |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| April 1993 | Eduard Huseynov, Azerbaijani counter admiral | | Assassinated near his home in Baku.[4] |
| September 29, 1994 | Afiyaddin Jalilov, deputy speaker of Azerbaijani parliament | | Assassinated near his home in Baku. |
| September 29, 1994 | Shamsi Rahimov, intelligence and national security chief | | Assassinated near his home in Baku. |
| March 17, 1995 | Rovshan Javadov, the chief of the Special Purpose Police Detachment of Azerbaijan. | | Killed in Azeri coup d'état attempt in 1995. |
| May 28, 1996 | Ali Ansukhski, member of Azerbaijani parliament | Mahir Ahmadov | Assassinated near his home in Baku. |
| February 21, 1997 | Ziya Bunyadov, Azerbaijani historian | Unknown, presumed to be Hezbollah | Assassinated near his home in Baku. |
| March 13, 2002 | Rovshan Aliyev, criminalist | Haji Mammadov | |
| June 14, 2004 | Fatulla Huseynov, colonel, the vice president of AFFA | Haji Mammadov | Assassinated near his home in Baku. |
| March 25, 2005 | Elmar Huseynov, Azerbaijani journalist | Unknown, though believed to be figures within the government of Azerbaijan | Shot to death at his home in Baku.[5] |
| February 11, 2009 | Rail Rzayev, commander of the Azerbaijani Air Force | | Assassinated near his home in Baku.[6] |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| August 15, 1975 | Mujibur Rahman, father of the nation and founder President of Bangladesh | Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad and coup | The coup was planned by disgruntled Awami League colleagues and military officers who were led by Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, and they targeted to exterminate his entire family. |
| November 3, 1975 | Muhammad Mansur Ali, Prime Minister of Bangladesh | | Killed by military officers in Dhaka Central Jail, having been arrested in the aftermath of the August coup. |
| November 3, 1975 | Tajuddin Ahmad, former Prime Minister | | Killed by military officers in Dhaka Central Jail, having been arrested in the aftermath of the August coup. |
| November 3, 1975 | Syed Nazrul Islam, former President | | Killed by military officers in Dhaka Central Jail, having been arrested in the aftermath of the August coup. |
| November 3, 1975 | A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, former government minister | | Killed by military officers in Dhaka Central Jail, having been arrested in the aftermath of the August coup. |
| November 7, 1975 | Khaled Mosharraf, Bangladeshi general | | Mosharraf seized power from Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (who had overthrown Mujibur Rahman in August), but was killed by mutinous army personnel four days later. |
| May 30, 1981 | Ziaur Rahman, President | Group of army officers | Plotted by a faction of officers of Bangladesh Army led by General Abul Monjur. |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| 221 | Zhang Fei, military general of Shu Han | Fan Qiang, Zhang Da | |
| July 13, 815 | Wu Yuanheng, Chancellor under Emperor Xianzong | | |
| September 4, 1323 | Sidibala, grand-khan of the Mongol Empire, Emperor of Yuan China | | |
| August 22, 1849 | João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, Portuguese Governor of Macau | | |
| August 22, 1870 | Ma Xinyi, governor | Zhang Wenxiang | |
| October 26, 1909 | Ito Hirobumi, Japanese Resident-General of Korea and former Prime Minister of Japan | An Jung-geun | Killed in Manchuria |
| March 22, 1913 | Song Jiaoren, Xinhai revolutionary | | Killed in Shanghai |
| May 18, 1916 | Chen Qimei, revolutionary activist | | Killed on the orders of Yuan Shikai, probably by Yuan's general Zhang Zongchang |
| August 20, 1925 | Liao Zhongkai, prominent member of the Kuomintang party | | |
| June 4, 1928 | Zhang Zuolin, Manchurian warlord | | Killed by officers of the Japanese Guandong Army |
| December 1941 | Fang Zhenwu, military officer | | Assassinated by Kuomintang agents |
| July 15, 1946 | Wen Yiduo, Chinese poet and scholar | Tang Shiliang, Li Wenshan | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| 185 BC | Brihadratha Maurya, last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty | Pushyamitra Shunga | |
| August 12, 1602 | Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar | Vir Singh Deo | Killed in a plot orchestrated by Prince Salim, because Abu'l-Farzl opposed Salim's accession to the throne |
| February 8, 1872 | Richard Bourke, Viceroy of India | Sher Ali Afridi | Stabbed while inspecting prisons in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. |
| January 30, 1948 | Mahatma Gandhi, independence leader and key proponent of non-violence | Nathuram Godse | See Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi |
| October 31, 1984 | Indira Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister | Satwant Singh and Beant Singh | Assassinated by personal bodyguards. See Assassination of Indira Gandhi. |
| August 10, 1986 | Arun Shridhar Vaidya, Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army from 1983 to 1986 | Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Harjinder Singh Jinda | |
| March 8, 1988 | Amar Singh Chamkila, controversial Punjabi singer/songwriter | | |
| May 21, 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, former Indian prime minister | Thenmuli Rajaratnam | Killed in an explosion triggered by a LTTE suicide bomber. First politician to be killed by a suicide bomber. See Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. |
| August 31, 1995 | Beant Singh, chief minister of Punjab | Dilawar Singh Jaisinghvala | |
| July 25, 2001 | Phoolan Devi, bandit queen turned politician | Sher Singh Rana | |
| May 21, 2002 | Abdul Ghani Lone, moderate Kashmiri Muslim separatist leader | | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| 465 BC | Xerxes I, Persian king | Artabanus, commander of the royal bodyguard | |
| 423 BC | Xerxes II, Persian king | Sogdianus, Xerxes' half-brother | |
| 423 BC | Sogdianus, Persian king | Darius II, Sogdianus' half-brother | |
| October 14, 1092 | Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuk Turks | | |
| June 20, 1747 | Nader Shah, Shah of Persia | Army officers led by Salah Bey, captain of the guards | Nadar was attacked in his sleep, but was able to kill two of the assassins before dying. |
| May 1, 1896 | Nasser-al-Din Shah, Shah of Persia | Mirza Reza Kermani | Assassinated on the day of his fiftieth kingship ceremony. |
| October 3, 1933 | Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Iranian statesman | | Died in Qasr Prison, possibly assassinated by the doctor Ahmad Ahmadi |
| 1937 | Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman Farmaian III, Iranian diplomat and politician | | |
| March 31, 1947 | Qazi Muhammad, dissident Kurdish Iranian political leader | | Killed in Mahabad |
| March 7, 1951 | Ali Razmara, Prime Minister of Iran | Khalil Tahmasebi | Shot in a mosque. |
| January 22, 1965 | Hassan Ali Mansur, Prime Minister of Iran[8] | Mohammad Bokharaei, a member of Fada'iyan-e Islam | Died in hospital on January 27 |
| June 28, 1981 | Mohammad Beheshti | | Killed along with 72 others in the Hafte Tir bombing |
| August 30, 1981 | Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran | Massoud Keshmiri, an operative of the People's Mujahedin of Iran | |
| August 30, 1981 | Mohammad Javad Bahonar, Prime Minister of Iran | Massoud Keshmiri, an operative of the People's Mujahedin of Iran | |
| January 11, 2012 | Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, nuclear scientist and university professor | | Killed by a bomber from a motorcycle |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| 681 BC | Sennacherib, Assyrian king | Arda Mulissi | Stabbed to death while at prayer in a temple, or possibly crushed under a winged child angelica.[9] |
| February 20, 244 | Gordian III, Roman emperor | | Possibly killed near Circesium by his troops |
| 661 | Ali ibn Abi Talib | Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam | |
| July 14, 1958 | Faisal II, King of Iraq | | Killed during the 14 July Revolution |
| July 15, 1958 | Nuri Pasha as-Said, Prime Minister of Iraq | | Killed during the 14 July Revolution |
| April 9, 1980 | Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, former Grand Ayatollah | | Killed by Saddam Hussein along with his sister, Bint al-Huda |
| 1980 | Bint al-Huda, Iraqi educator and political activist | | Killed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr |
| January 24, 1988 | Mahdi al-Hakim, prominent figure in the Iraqi opposition | | Assassinated in the lobby of the Hilton in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. His companion Halim Abd-alWahhab was wounded in the leg.[10] |
| February 19, 1999 | Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, former Grand Ayatollah | | Killed in the Iraqi city of Najaf along with two of his sons |
| August 19, 2003 | Sérgio Vieira de Mello, UN Special Representative in Iraq | | Killed in the Canal Hotel bombing |
| August 29, 2003 | Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, highly influential Shi'ite ayatollah | | Killed in the Imam Ali Mosque bombing |
| September 25, 2003 | Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi Governing Council member | | |
| April 10, 2003 | Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, Shia cleric | | |
| October 28, 2003 | Ahmad Shawkat, Iraqi journalist | | |
| May 7, 2004 | Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist | | |
| May 17, 2004 | Ezzedine Salim, acting chairman of the Iraqi Governing Council, Iraqi MP | | Killed by members of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad |
| November 1, 2004 | Hatem Kamil, deputy governor of Baghdad Province | | |
| January 4, 2005 | Ali al-Haidari, governor of Baghdad Province | | |
| January 4, 2005 | Hadi Saleh, Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions | | |
| April 27, 2005 | Lamiya Abed Khadawi, Iraqi MP | | |
| June 28, 2005 | Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, Iraqi MP | | Killed by members of al-Qaeda in Iraq |
| July 2005 | Ihab al-Sherif, Egyptian envoy to Iraq | | Abducted on July 3 by al-Qaeda in Iraq; his death was confirmed on July 7 |
| February 22, 2006 | Atwar Bahjat, Iraqi journalist | Yasser al-Takhi | |
| April 27, 2006 | Maysoon al-Hashemi, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party women's department | | |
| May 31, 2006 | Ali Jaafar, Iraqi journalist | | |
| June 7, 2006 | Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq | | Killed in a U.S. airstrike |
| April 12, 2007 | Mohammed Awad, Iraqi MP | | Killed in the 2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing |
| June 25, 2007 | Fasal al Gaood, former governor of Al Anbar Province | | |
| August 11, 2007 | Khalil Jalil Hamza, governor of Al-Qādisiyyah Province | | |
| August 20, 2007 | Mohammed Ali al-Hasani, governor of Muthanna Province | | |
| September 13, 2007 | Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, Sunni tribal leader | | Killed by al-Qaeda in Iraq |
| October 5, 2008 | Mohamed Moumou, Number 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and senior leader in Northern Iraq | | Killed by U.S. military |
| 2008 | Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul | | Kidnapped on February 29, 2008; his body was discovered on March 13 |
| June 12, 2009 | Harith al-Obeidi, Iraqi MP | | |
| December 22, 2009 | Riad Abdel Majid, Brigadier General in the Iraqi Army[11] | | |
| April 18, 2010 | Abu Ayyub al-Masri, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) | | Killed by U.S. and Iraqi forces |
| January 15, 2013 | Ayfan Sadoun al-Essawi, prominent Sunni MP[12] | | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| 582/1 BCE | Gedaliah, governor of Yehud | | |
| 1134 | Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa | | Attacked by a Breton knight, and died of his wounds shortly after. |
| October 1174 | Miles of Plancy, regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem | | |
| April 28, 1192 | Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem, leader in the Third Crusade | | Killed by Hashshashin |
| June 30, 1924 | Jacob Israël de Haan, pro-Orthodox Jewish diplomat | | Killed by members of Haganah |
| June 16, 1933 | Haim Arlosoroff, Zionist leader in the British Mandate of Palestine | | |
| August 26, 1939 | Ralph Cairns, commander of the Palestine Police CID's Jewish Section in Jerusalem | | Assassinated by Irgun under orders from Hanoch Kalai |
| May 28, 1948 | Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul General in Jerusalem | | |
| September 17, 1948 | Folke Bernadotte, Middle East peace mediator | | Assassinated by Lehi |
| March 15, 1957 | Rudolf Kastner, Hungarian Zionist leader, negotiated the Kasztner train with the Nazis | Ze'ev Eckstein, a member of Lehi | |
| January 12, 1981 | Hamad Abu Rabia, member of the Knesset | | Killed by the sons of Jabr Muadi |
| November 4, 1995 | Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize recipient | Yigal Amir | Attack carried out by Israeli opposed to Oslo Accords. See Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. |
| December 31, 2000 | Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, son of Meir David Kahane, leader of Kahane Chai, Zionist | | |
| October 17, 2001 | Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli general and politician | Hamdi Quran, Basel al-Asmar, Majdi Rahima Rimawi, and Ahad Olma, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| 456 | Emperor Ankō, Emperor of Japan | Prince Mayowa no Ōkimi | |
| 592 | Emperor Sushun, Emperor of Japan | Yamato no Aya no Ataikoma | The assassination was ordered by Soga no Umako |
| 645 | Soga no Iruka, son of influential statesman Soga no Emishi | | Killed on the orders of Nakatomi no Kamatari and Prince Naka no Ōe |
| February 11, 1160 | Minamoto no Yoshitomo, head of Minamoto clan, father of Minamoto no Yoritomo | | |
| February 13, 1219 | Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate | Kugyō, Sanetomo's nephew | |
| July 12, 1441 | Ashikaga Yoshinori, the sixth shogun of the Ashikaga Shogunate | | Killed on the orders of Akamatsu Mitsusuke |
| August 25, 1486 | Ōta Dōkan, samurai, architect and builder of Edo Castle | | |
| August 1, 1507 | Hosokawa Masamoto, shugo daimyo of Ashikaga Shogunate | Kosai Motonaga and Hosokawa Sumiyuki | |
| 1535 | Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan | | |
| September 30, 1551 | Ōuchi Yoshitaka, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan | | |
| November 22, 1557 | Oda Nobuyuki, Japanese samurai, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga | | |
| June 17, 1565 | Ashikaga Yoshiteru, shogun, feudal leader in Japan | | |
| February 24, 1566 | Mimura Iechika, daimyo, feudal leader in Japan | Endō Matajirō and Yoshijirō | Killed on the orders of Ukita Naoie |
| August 20, 1578 | Yamanaka Shikanosuke, Japanese samurai | | Killed by soldiers of the Mōri clan |
| June 21, 1582 | Oda Nobunaga, samurai warlord | Akechi Mitsuhide | |
| 1669 | Shakushain, Ainu chieftain | | |
| January 30, 1703 | Kira Yoshinaka, master of ceremonies | | Killed by a group known as the Forty-seven Ronin |
| March 24, 1860 | Ii Naosuke, Japanese politician | | |
| October 27, 1863 | Serizawa Kamo, a chief of Shinsen-gumi | | |
| August 12, 1864 | Sakuma Shozan, Japanese politician | Kawakami Gensai, samurai | |
| December 10, 1867 | Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese author | | |
| December 7, 1869 | Ōmura Masujirō, military leader and theorist | | |
| February 15, 1869 | Yokoi Shōnan, scholar and politician | | |
| May 14, 1878 | Okubo Toshimichi, Home Minister of Japan, briefly most powerful man in Japan | Shimada Ichirō | |
| February 12, 1889 | Mori Arinori, First Education Minister | | |
| October 26, 1909 | Hirobumi Itō, former Prime Minister of Japan | An Jung-geun, Korean independence activist | |
| September 28, 1921 | Yasuda Zenjirō, entrepreneur who founded Yasuda zaibatsu, great-grand father of Yoko Ono | | |
| November 4, 1921 | Hara Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan | Nakaoka Kon'ichi, a right-wing railroad switchman | |
| August 26, 1931 | Osachi Hamaguchi, Prime Minister of Japan | Tomeo Sagoya, a member of the Aikoku-sha ultranationalist secret society | |
| February 9, 1932 | Junnosuke Inoue, businessman | Sho Onuma | Part of the League of Blood Incident |
| March 5, 1932 | Dan Takuma, zaibatsu leader | Goro Hishinuma, right-wing nationalist | Part of the League of Blood Incident |
| May 15, 1932 | Inukai Tsuyoshi, Prime Minister of Japan | | Killed by naval officers in the May 15 Incident |
| May 26, 1932 | Yoshinori Shirakawa, general of the Imperial Japanese Army | Yun Bong-gil, Korean independence activist | |
| August 12, 1935 | Tetsuzan Nagata, general of the Imperial Japanese Army | Saburo Aizawa, army officer | |
| February 26, 1936 | Saitō Makoto, admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy | | Killed in the February 26 Incident. |
| February 26, 1936 | Takahashi Korekiyo, Prime Minister of Japan | | Killed in the February 26 Incident. |
| February 26, 1936 | Jōtarō Watanabe, Inspector General of Military Training | | Killed in the February 26 Incident. |
| October 12, 1960 | Inejiro Asanuma, Socialist Party of Japan chairman | Otoya Yamaguchi | While Asanuma spoke from the lectern at Tokyo's Hibiya Hall during a televised debate, Yamaguchi rushed onstage and ran his wakizashi (a type of traditional Japanese sword) through Asanuma's abdomen, killing him. |
| June 18, 1985 | Kazuo Nagano, Japanese chairman | Masakazu Yano and Atsuo Iida | |
| July 12, 1991 | Hitoshi Igarashi, translated The Satanic Verses into Japanese | | |
| April 23, 1995 | Hideo Murai, one of the leading members of Aum Shinrikyo | Hiroyuki Jo, member of the Yamaguchi-gumi | |
| October 25, 2002 | Koki Ishii, Japanese politician | Ito Hakusui, member of the Yamaguchi-gumi | |
| April 18, 2007 | Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki | Tetsuya Shiroo, member of the Yamaguchi-gumi | |
| 2013 | , business chairman of Osho Food Service | | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| 1152 | Raymond II of Tripoli, count of Tripoli | | Killed by Hashshashin |
| April 28, 1192 | Conrad of Montferrat | | Killed by Hashshashin |
| August 17, 1270 | Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre | | Killed by Hashshashin |
| October 31, 1950 | Sami al-Hinnawi, Syrian head of state | Hersho al-Barazi | Hersho al-Barazi was a cousin of former Prime Minister Muhsin al-Barazi, who al-Hinnawi had executed following a coup. |
| June 16, 1976 | Francis E. Meloy, Jr., US Ambassador to Lebanon | | Killed by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| June 16, 1976 | Robert O. Waring, US Economic Counselor to Lebanon | | Killed by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| March 16, 1977 | Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese Druze leader | | |
| June 13, 1978 | Tony Frangieh, Lebanese Christian leader | | Killed by Phalangists led by Elie Hobeika and Samir Geagea |
| September 14, 1982 | Bachir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon | Habib Tanious Shartouni | Bomb explosion in the Phalange's Beirut headquarters. |
| June 1, 1987 | Rashid Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon | | Killed by bomb aboard helicopter, planted by the Lebanese Forces. |
| November 22, 1989 | René Moawad, President of Lebanon | | |
| October 21, 1990 | Dany Chamoun, son of late president Camille Chamoun | | |
| January 24, 2002 | Elie Hobeika, Lebanese militia leader | | |
| February 14, 2005 | Rafik Hariri, former Prime Minister of Lebanon and billionaire | | Assassination via car bomb in Beirut |
| June 2, 2005 | Samir Kassir, columnist at Lebanese newspaper "An Nahar", and fierce critic of Syria | | |
| June 21, 2005 | George Hawi, former chief of Lebanese Communist Party | | |
| December 12, 2005 | Gibran Tueni, Editor in Chief of Lebanese newspaper "An Nahar" | | |
| November 21, 2006 | Pierre Gemayel, Minister of Industry of Lebanon | | |
| June 13, 2007 | Walid Eido, member of the National Assembly | | |
| September 19, 2007 | Antoine Ghanim, member of the National Assembly | | |
| December 12, 2007 | François al-Hajj, Lebanese Military General | | |
| January 25, 2008 | Wissam Eid, National Security, Information Sector | | |
| December 27, 2013 | Mohamad Chatah, former finance minister, ambassador to the United States, and advisor to Saad Hariri | | Assassination via car bomb in Beirut. Presumed to be because Chatah was mentioned as a potential candidate for prime minister. Saad Hariri hinted that he believed the assassinators to be from Hezbollah or Israel. |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| November 2, 1875 | James Wheeler Woodford Birch, a British Resident Minister in the State of Perak | | Speared to death by followers of Malay chief Lela Pandak Lam, while in the bath-house of his boat at Pasir Salak |
| December 10, 1949 | Duncan Stewart, Second Governor of Sarawak, a British Crown Colony (1946–1963) | Rukun 13 members Rosli Dhobie, Morshidi Sidek, Awang Ramli Mohd Deli, and Bujang Suntong | Stabbed to death during his arrival at Sibu |
| October 6, 1951 | Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner in Malaya (1948–1951) | | Shot to death by a guerilla unit from the Malayan Communist Party at Fraser's Hill |
| 7 June 1974 | Abdul Rahman Hashim, Inspector-General of Police from 1 February 1973 to 7 June 1974. | | Shot dead by the communist subversive who the one leader of Royal Malaysian Police at Mounbatten Road (now Jalan Tun Perak) and Weld Road (now Jalan Raja Chulan), Kuala Lumpur. |
| 18 October, 2006 | Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa, a Mongolian national, | | Murdered by C-4 explosives or was somehow killed first and her remains destroyed with C-4 on 18 October 2006 in a deserted area in Shah Alam, Malaysia near Kuala Lumpur.[13] |
| January 11, 2008 | S. Krishnasamy, state assemblyman for the Tenggaroh constituency, Malaysia (2003-2008) | | |
| July 29, 2013 | Hussain Najadi, banker, AmBank founder | | Shot twice at close range by an unidentified assailant |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| October 16, 1951 | Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan | | |
| February 8, 1975 | Hayat Sherpao, former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province | | Killed by Afghan extremist |
| August 17, 1988 | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 10-year President of Pakistan and 12-year Chief of Army Staff | | Killed in a mysterious aircraft accident which seemed to be a bomb blast (traced to a crate of mangoes placed into his aircraft). |
| November 24, 1989 | Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, militant Islamist | | Killed near Peshawar |
| October 3, 1991 | Fazle Haq, former governor of the Northwest Frontier province, Pakistan, from 1978 to 1985 | | |
| September 1993 | Ghulam Haider Wyne, former Chief Minister of Punjab | | |
| April 16, 1995 | Iqbal Masih, 13-year-old anti-child labor activist | | Killed in Rakh Baoli |
| October 17, 1998 | Hakim Said, founder of Hamdard Foundation and Hamdard University, Karachi; former Governor of Sindh | | |
| 2001 | Siddiq Khan Kanju, former foreign minister of Pakistan from 1991 to 1993 | | |
| December 27, 2007 | Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (first and only lady Prime minister of Pakistan) | Unknown, widely believed to be Islamic militants | Killed while entering a vehicle upon leaving a political rally for the Pakistan People's Party in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. See Assassination of Benazir Bhutto. |
| August 5, 2009 | Baitullah Mehsud, leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan | | |
| May 2, 2011 | Osama bin Laden, head and status symbol of al-Quaeda, held responsible for the attacks on 9/11 | Members of the US Navy Seals | Killed in a raid in his residence in Abbottabad, the order for the raid and execution came from US president Barack Obama |
| January 4, 2011 | Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab | Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri | Killed by one of his security guards due to Taseer's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws |
| March 2, 2011 | Shahbaz Bhatti, Minorities Minister | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan | Killed due to his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws |
| June 4, 2012 | Abu Yahya al-Libi, high-ranking al-Qaeda member, alleged member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, former detainee at the Parwan Detention Facility, from where he escaped in 2005 | | |
| January 2, 2013 | Maulvi Nazir, high-ranking Pakistani Taliban member in South Waziristan | | |
| August 16, 2015 | Shuja Khanzada, Home Minister of Punjab | | Killed in the 2015 Attock bombing |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
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| 1719 | Fernando Manuel de Bustamante, Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. | | Dragged and killed by a mob instigated by friars. |
| 1763 | Diego Silang, early Ilocano rebel leader, and husband of Gabriela Silang. | Miguel Vicos
Pedro Bebec | Church authorities paid the assassins. Vicos was Silang's friend |
| 1899 | Antonio Luna, general of the Filipino army during the Philippine–American War. | Kawit Battalion of the Katipunan led by Pedro Janolino | Emilio Aguinaldo is suspected to be behind the assassination. |
| 1935 | Julio Nalundasan, Congressman for Ilocos | | A young Ferdinand Marcos tried but acquitted for the slaying. |
| April 28, 1949 | Aurora Quezon y Aragón, former First Lady of the Philippines and widow of President Manuel L. Quezon. | | Died with her daughter and several others in ambush believed to have been perpetrated by the Hukbalahap. |
| April 28, 1949 | Ponciano Bernardo, Mayor of Quezon City, then the national capital | | Died with Doña Quezon and several others in an ambush. |
| 1980 | Joe Lingad, former Governor of Pampanga. | | |
| April 24, 1980 | Macliing Dulag, Kalinga pangat (chieftain) and indigenous peoples' rights activist. | 4th Infantry Division, Philippine Army | |
| August 21, 1983 | Benigno Aquino, Jr., politician, leader of the opposition against President Ferdinand Marcos | Rogelio Moreno (confirmed)
AVSECOM members (accomplices) | |
| 1984 | Cesar Climaco, Mayor of Zamboanga City and prominent opposition leader. | | |
| February 11, 1986 | Evelio Javier, Governor of Antique and ally of 1986 presidential candidate, Corazon Aquino. | | |
| 1986 | Emma Henry, police officer and film actress. | | |
| 1987 | Lean Alejandro, prominent student activist leader. | | |
| 1988 | Roy Padilla, Sr., Governor of Camarines Norte, and father of action star Robin Padilla. | | |
| 1989 | James N. Rowe, United States military advisor. | Juanito T. Itaas (principal)
Donato B. Continente (accomplice) | The New People's Army claims responsibility for the assassination |
| 2001 | Filemon 'Ka Popoy' Lagmán, founder of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP; "coalition of Filipino workers") | Two unknown assailants | |
| October 3, 2006 | Alberto Ramento, Obispo Máximo IX of the Philippine Independent Church. | | |
| November 13, 2007 | Wahab Akbar, Representative of Basilan | | One of several killed when the Batasan Pambansa (National Legislature building) was bombed. |
| January 1, 2011 | Reynaldo Dagsa, Barangay captain of Maypajo, Caloocan | | |
| January 25, 2015 | Zulkifli Abdhir, suspected leader of Jemaah Islamiyah | Members of the Special Action Force | See Mamasapano clash |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|
| September 25, 1959 | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Ceylonese prime minister | Talduwe Somarama, a Buddhist monk who later converted to Christianity | |
| 1975 | Alfred Duraiappah, Mayor of Jaffna | | Killed by LTTE |
| 1989 | Vijaya Kumaranatunga, movie actor turned SLFP-SLMP politician | | Killed by JVP |
| 1989 | Rohana Wijeweera, founder of JVP | | Killed by Sri Lankan Armed Forces |
| 1989 | A. Amirthalingam, leader of separatist party TULF | | Killed by LTTE |
| 1991 | Ranjan Wijeratne, Foreign Minister & Minister of State for Defence | | Killed by LTTE |
| 1993 | Lalith Athulathmudali, former cabinet minister | | Purportedly killed by LTTE |
| 1993 | Ranasinghe Premadasa, President of Sri Lanka | | Killed by a suicide bomber on May Day parade. The attack was purportedly carried out by LTTE (but was possibly revenge for his own orchestrating murder of political rival Lalith Athulathmudali, to whom he feared losing election). |
| 1994 | Gamini Dissanayake, Presidential candidate, UNP Member of Parliament | | Killed by LTTE |
| 1998 | Sarojini Yogeswaran, Mayor of Jaffna | | Killed by LTTE |
| 1998 | Ponnudurai Sivapalan, Mayor of Jaffna | | Killed by LTTE |
| 1999 | Neelan Tiruchelvam, TULF Member of Parliament | | Killed by LTTE |
| 1999 | Lakshman Algama, UNP politician | | Killed by LTTE |
| 2000 | C. V. Gunaratne, cabinet minister | | Killed by LTTE |
| 2005 | Joseph Pararajasingham, TNA Member of Parliament | | Killed by GoSL supported para-military Karuna Group |
| 2005 | Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister | | Killed by LTTE |
| 2006 | Parami Kulatunga, army general | | Killed by LTTE |
| 2006 | Nadarajah Raviraj, TNA Member of Parliament | | Killed by GoSL paramilitary Group |
| 2008 | T. Maheswaran, UNP Member of Parliament | | Killed by LTTE as revenge for having talks with the president Raajapakse |
| 2008 | D. M. Dassanayake, Nation Building Minister and SLFP Member of Parliament | | Killed by LTTE |
| 2008 | K. Sivanesan, TNA Member of Parliament | | Killed by Sri Lankan Army's Deep Penetration Unit |
| 2008 | Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, Minister of Highways and Road Development and SLFP Member of Parliament | | Killed by LTTE |
| 2009 | Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of The Sunday Leader | Unknown | |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|
| 246 BC | Antiochus II Theos, Seleucid king | | |
| 223 BC | Seleucus III Ceraunus, Seleucid king | | |
| 176 BC | Seleucus IV Philopator, Seleucid king | | |
| 146 BC | Alexander Balas, Seleucid king | | |
| 138 BC | Antiochus VI Dionysus, Seleucid heir to the throne | | |
| 285 | Numerian, Roman emperor | Arrius Aper, his father-in-law | Killed in Emesa (modern-day Homs) |
| 1146 | Zengi, ruler of Aleppo and Mosul and founder of the Zengid Dynasty | | |
| 1940 | Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar, Syrian nationalist | | |
| August 1, 2008 | Muhammad Suleiman, Syrian general and security adviser to president Bashar al-Assad | | |
| February 12, 2008 | Imad Mughniyah, senior member of Hezbollah | | |
| July 18, 2012 | Syria's Defense Minister General Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, chief of staff of the Syrian Armed Forces General Hasan Turkmani, and Intelligence and National Security Chief Hisham Ikhtiyar | Either Liwa al Islam or the Free Syrian Army (both claimed responsibility) | Killed either with a remotely detonated bomb or via suicide attack as part of the Syrian civil war. Several other leading government officials may have been injured or killed. |
| Date | Victim(s) | Assassin(s) | Notes |
|---|
| 1913 | Mahmud Şevket Pasha, prime minister | | |
| 1921 | Mustafa Suphi, communist leader | | |
| 1930 | Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay | Dervish Mehmet | Known as Menemen Incident |
| 1979 | Abdi Ipekçi, journalist, Editor-in-Chief of Milliyet newspaper | Mehmet Ali Ağca | |
| 1979 | Metin Yüksel, Islamic political activist | | |
| 1979 | Cavit Orhan Tütengil, academician and writer | | |
| 1980 | Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, writer and TV producer | | |
| 1980 | Kemal Türkler, labor union leader | | Killed by Grey Wolves in Istanbul. |
| 1980 | Nihat Erim, former Prime Minister of Turkey | | Killed by a Dev Sol operative in Istanbul. |
| 1990 | Muammer Aksoy, University professor in Law | | Killed in Ankara. |
| 1990 | Bahriye Üçok, University professor in Islam Studies and women's rights activist | | Killed in Istanbul. |
| 1990 | Turan Dursun, Islamic scholar, author, and journalist | | Killed in Ankara, unresolved. |
| 1992 | Musa Anter, dissident Kurdish activist and writer | | Killed in Diyarbakır, unresolved, attributed to Turkish military intelligence (JITEM). |
| 1993 | Uğur Mumcu, a journalist of Cumhuriyet newspaper | Unknown | Killed in Ankara. |
| 1995 | Onat Kutlar, writer, poet, founder of Cinemateque Istanbul, columnist for Cumhuriyet newspaper | | Killed in Istanbul. |
| 1996 | Özdemir Sabancı, prominent industrialist and member of Sabancı family | | |
| 1998 | Konca Kuriş, Islamic feminist author | | Kidnapped and tortured to death in Mersin. |
| 1999 | Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, politician, former Minister of Culture, Ankara University professor in Political Science, Cumhuriyet newspaper columnist | | |
| 2001 | Üzeyir Garih, Turkish Jewish businessman and industrialist | | |
| 2002 | Necip Hablemitoğlu, Professor of history at Ankara University | | His assassination is unresolved. |
| 2006 | Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, High Judge at Council of State | Alparslan Arslan | Killed in Ankara. |
| 2006 | Andrea Santoro, Roman Catholic priest | | Murdered in the Santa Maria Church in Trabzon. |
| 2007 | Hrant Dink, Turkish Armenian journalist, publisher of Agos newspaper | Ogün Samast | Fired three shots at Dink's head from the back at point blank range before fleeing the scene on foot. See Assassination of Hrant Dink. |