In 2017, The New York Times reported a botched assassination targeting a volunteer fighter in the conflict in eastern Ukraine by a man from the Russian region of Chechnya posing as a French journalist.
More than 35,000 Pakistanis have died since 9/11 in assassinations, targeted attacks and suicide bombings.
The cities of Benghazi, Bayda and Darna are strongholds of Islamic extremists who are carrying out political assassinations, targeting political activists, judges and members of security agencies.
Since the 2011 revolution the east of Libya – and in particular the country's second city of Benghazi – has been a stronghold for jihadists, and the scene of attacks and assassinations targeting notably the military, police and judges.
The peninsula exploded in violence when the military overthrew President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood last summer, and it is now the center of an extremist campaign of bombings and assassinations targeting the military and the police.
The group carried out massacres and assassinations, targeting left-wing activists who speak out against them.
He said the group was planning a campaign of assassinations targeting local politicians to destabilise the city.
During the 1980s, there were some attacks believed to be from within the Turkish state against members of the militant Armenian group Asala, but there have been no political assassinations targeting the PKK.
The Brotherhood was accused of carrying out a campaign of assassinations targeting university professors and other professionals before the government of Hafez Assad crushed the rebellion.
Charles Smart was the assassination target.
