The phrase "assassination attacks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe violent actions aimed at killing a specific individual, often for political reasons.
Example: "The government condemned the recent assassination attacks that targeted key political figures in the region."
Alternatives: "targeted killings" or "political assassinations".
In Pakistan, US drone assassination attacks are now routinely carried out against Taliban and al-Qaida targets, real or imagined.
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.
That effort, he said, required "continuity". "This was a culture, a society which was moving towards extremism and fundamentalism, and I am trying to reverse this trend and give voice to the vast majority of Pakistanis who are moderate," said General Musharraf, 61, the target of two assassination attacks last December and a plot on his life in August, all, he said, planned by Al Qaeda.
In July 2011 he survived an assassination attack by a faction of soldiers.
The pair were caught up in the aftermath of the Israeli gunship assassination attack on a leading Palestinian extremist.
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.
(My guess: with an assassination attack rather than a massive invasion; see "Springtime, Taxes, and the Attack on Iraq"). It is hard to conceive of a worse outcome for al Qaeda.
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.
