The phrase "assassination attack" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an attack specifically aimed at killing a prominent person, often for political reasons.
Example: "The government condemned the assassination attack on the political leader, calling it an act of terrorism."
Alternatives: "targeted killing" or "political assassination."
In July 2011 he survived an assassination attack by a faction of soldiers.
See articleYunus-Bek Yevkurov, the president of Ingushetia, a Russian republic in the north Caucasus, was almost killed in an assassination attack by a suicide-bomber.
Obama (and the moderator) also claimed he called the 11 September assassination attack in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans a "terrorist attack" the following day in a Rose Garden speech.
Shazia and Kainat were were sitting alongside Malala when she was shot last October in an assassination attack.
Mr. Kadyrov has been the target of several assassination attacks and has been struggling to establish his authority in Chechnya since his appointment last month.
Mr. Bilour was long on the target list of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella organization of the Pakistani militant groups, and survived at least two previous assassination attacks.
From its bases in Iraq, the Mujahedeen Khalq has carried out assassination attacks against the Iranian government, and it has also been accused of killing several members of the American military as well as civilians working on defense projects in Iran before the 1979 revolution.
While Islamist militants have repeatedly targeted senior government officials in suicide and bomb attacks, an assassination attempt using biological weapons would be an anomaly.
Mr. Ghannouchi called the assassination an attack on Tunisia.
An assassination, an attack by wild birds, a tropical picnic: they are part of the same cast-adrift, polymorphous-perverse American show, and Certs mints sponsors them all.
In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the assassination "an attack not only on one man but on the values of tolerance and respect for people of all faiths and backgrounds that had been championed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan".
