Editing 2010s (section)

==Assassinations and attempts==
{{Main|List of assassinations and assassination attempts}}

Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include:

[[File:Osama bin Laden portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Osama bin Laden]]]]
[[File:Anwar al-Awlaki portrait 3x4.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Anwar al-Awlaki]]]]
[[File:Muammar al-Gaddafi in 2010 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Muammar al-Gaddafi]]]]
[[File:Malala Yousafzai at Girl Summit 2014.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Malala Yousafzai]]]]
[[File:Andrei Gennadjewitsch Karlow 3x4 cropped.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Andrei Karlov]]]]
[[File:Jamal Khashoggi in March 2018 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jamal Khashoggi]]]]
[[File:Mugshot of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 2004.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]]]]

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!Event
! Country
! style="width:120px;" | Date
! Description
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|[[2011 Tucson shooting]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| {{DTS|2011|1|8|format=dmy}}
| [[Federal judiciary of the United States|United States Federal judge]] [[John Roll]] and 5 others were killed and 13 more were injured in a shooting near [[Tucson, Arizona]]. The apparent target, U.S. Representative [[Gabby Giffords]], was critically injured in the head.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/08/20110108arizona-giffords-brk.html |title=Arizona Congresswoman Giffords shot; doctors 'optimistic' about recovery chances |website=azcentral.com |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=15 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215014341/https://help.azcentral.com/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|[[Killing of Osama bin Laden]]
| {{Flag|Pakistan}}
| {{DTS|2011|5|2|format=dmy}}
| [[Osama bin Laden]], the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group [[Al-Qaeda]], was killed in a [[targeted killing]] in [[Abbottabad]], Pakistan in an operation conducted by a team of [[United States Navy SEAL]] [[commando]]s.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/osama-bin-laden-is-killed-by-us-forces-in-pakistan/2011/05/01/AFXMZyVF_story.html |title=Osama bin Laden buried at sea after being killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref>
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| {{Flag|Afghanistan}}
| {{DTS|2011|9|20|format=dmy}}
| [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]], [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] politician and teacher who served as [[president of Afghanistan]] from 1992 to 1996, and again from November to December 2001. He was assassinated in his 71st birthday by a [[suicide bomber]] entering his home in Kabul.<ref>{{cite news |title=Afghan president assassinated |date=20 September 2011 |publisher=[[Al Jazeera English]]}}</ref><ref name="CNN2011-09-20">{{cite news |url=http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/20/u-s-embassy-staff-in-kabul-ordered-to-take-cover/?hpt=hp_t1 |title=Turban bomb kills key Afghan political leader |date=20 September 2011 |publisher=CNN |access-date=21 September 2011 |archive-date=14 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614142032/http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/20/u-s-embassy-staff-in-kabul-ordered-to-take-cover/?hpt=hp_t1 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 
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| {{Flag|Yemen}}
| {{DTS|2011|9|30|format=dmy}}
| [[Anwar al-Awlaki]], a senior talent recruiter, planner and spiritual leader of al-Qaeda, was [[Anwar al-Awlaki#Death|killed]] in a targeted killing in the northern [[Al Jawf Governorate|al-Jawf]] province of Yemen, in a drone strike.<ref name="foxnews1">{{cite news |last=Griffin |first=Jennifer |url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/30/us-born-terror-boss-anwar-al-awlaki-killed/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930163308/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/30/us-born-terror-boss-anwar-al-awlaki-killed/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 September 2011 |title=Two U.S.-Born Terrorists Killed in CIA-Led Drone Strike |work=Fox News |date=7 April 2010 |access-date=30 September 2011}}</ref>
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|[[Killing of Muammar Gaddafi]]
| {{Flag|Libya}}
| {{DTS|2011|10|20|format=dmy}}
| [[Muammar Gaddafi]], leader of Libya, was shot to death in [[Sirte]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Rana |last=Jawad |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15389550 |title=Libya's Col Muammar Kaddafi killed, says NTC |work=BBC News |date=20 October 2011 |access-date=10 November 2011}}</ref>
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|[[2012 Montreal shooting]]
| {{Flag|Canada}}
| {{DTS|2012|9|4|format=dmy}}
| [[Pauline Marois]], Premier-designate of [[Quebec]], escaped death during her [[2012 Quebec general election|victory speech]] after Richard Henry Bain opened fire at the [[Metropolis (concert hall)|Metropolis]] in [[Montreal]], killing one person and critically injuring another.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/marois-may-have-been-targeted-in-quebec-shooting-police/article4520036/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907153041/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/marois-may-have-been-targeted-in-quebec-shooting-police/article4520036/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 September 2012 |title=Suspect in Quebec shooting identified as Mont-Tremblant businessman |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=5 September 2012 |access-date=30 November 2012}}</ref>
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| {{Flag|Pakistan}}
| {{DTS|2012|10|9|format=dmy}}
| [[Malala Yousafzai]], Pakistani women's rights activist, was the survivor of an [[Malala Yousafzai#Murder attempt|assassination attempt]] by the [[Pakistani Taliban]] in Pakistan.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.khaleejtimes.com/article/20121104/ARTICLE/311049814/1002 |title=Malala will soon undergo reconstructive surgery – Khaleej Times |last=Zain |first=Asma Ali |website=khaleejtimes.com |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305162023/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/article/20121104/ARTICLE/311049814/1002 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|[[Assassination of Mohamad Chatah]]
| {{Flag|Lebanon}}
| {{DTS|2013|12|27|format=dmy}}
| [[Mohamad Chatah]], Lebanese economist and diplomat, was assassinated by a [[car bomb]] struck Chatah's convoy<ref name="cnn">{{cite web |url=http://cnn.com/2013/12/27/world/meast/lebanon-explosion/ |title=Lebanon's Chatah -- friend of U.S., enemy of Assad, Hezbollah -- killed |date=27 December 2013 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mohamad-chatah-lebanese-ex-minister-killed-in-beirut-bombing-1.2476861 |title=Mohamad Chatah, Lebanese ex-minister, killed in Beirut bombing |date=27 December 2013 |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> in the [[Beirut Central District|Central District]] of [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]].<ref name="bbcbeirut">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25524729 |title=Beirut blast kills Sunni ex-minister Mohamad Chatah |date=27 December 2013 |work=[[BBC News]] |archive-date=27 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227171712/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25524729 |access-date=24 November 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> The bombing killed a total of eight people, among them Chatah, and injured seventy others.<ref name="deathtoll">{{cite journal |url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Dec-29/242571-beirut-bombing-death-toll-rises-to-eight.ashx |title=Beirut bombing death toll rises to eight |date=29 December 2013 |journal=The Daily Star |access-date=16 January 2014 |archive-date=17 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117035642/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Dec-29/242571-beirut-bombing-death-toll-rises-to-eight.ashx |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|[[Assassination of Boris Nemtsov]]
| {{Flag|Russia}}
| {{DTS|2015|2|27|format=dmy}}
| [[Boris Nemtsov]], Russian physicist, statesman and opposition politician, was assassinated on the [[Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge]], Central [[Moscow]], [[Russia]], within sight of the [[Government of Russia|Kremlin]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31669061 |title=Russia opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead |work=BBC News |access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref>
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|[[Murder of Jo Cox]]
| {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| {{DTS|2016|6|16|format=dmy}}
| [[Jo Cox]], British MP, was shot and stabbed to death by a [[Neo-Nazi]] [[white supremacist]]<ref name="sentencing">{{cite web |url=https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/sentencing-remarks-r-v-thomas-mair.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/sentencing-remarks-r-v-thomas-mair.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Sentencing remarks of Mr Justice Wilkie: R -v- Mair (Jo Cox murder) |date=23 November 2016 |access-date=24 November 2016 |quote=There is no doubt that this murder was done for the purpose of advancing a political, racial and ideological cause namely that of violent white supremacism and exclusive nationalism most associated with Nazism and its modern forms. |author=J. Wilkie |publisher=Judiciary}}</ref> in [[Birstall, West Yorkshire|Birstall]], [[England]]. She was the first British MP assassinated in over a quarter of a century and the first female politician in Britain to be assassinated.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36550304 |title=Jo Cox MP dead after shooting attack |work=BBC News |access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
|[[Assassination of Andrei Karlov]]
| {{Flag|Turkey}}
| {{DTS|2016|12|19|format=dmy}}
| [[Andrei Karlov]], the Russian ambassador to Turkey, was shot to death by an off duty police officer at an art gallery in [[Ankara]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38369962 |title=Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov shot dead in Ankara |date=19 December 2016 |work=BBC News |access-date=22 January 2017}}</ref>
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|[[Assassination of Kim Jong-nam]]
| {{Flag|Malaysia}}
| {{DTS|2017|2|13|format=dmy}}
| [[Kim Jong-nam]], eldest son of the late [[Kim Jong-il]], was assassinated by two women in [[Malaysia]] with a [[VX nerve agent]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/malaysia-says-vx-nerve-agent-used-in-killing-of-north-korean-leaders-half-brother |title=Malaysia says VX nerve agent used in killing North Korean leaders half brother |publisher=[[Fox News]] |date=24 February 2017 |access-date=24 February 2017}}</ref>
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|[[Congressional baseball shooting]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| {{DTS|2017|6|14|format=dmy}}
| [[Steve Scalise]], an American Congressman, is shot and injured during practice ahead of the annual [[Congressional Baseball Game]] in [[Alexandria, Virginia]] by a man who held grievances against the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] party. Three others are also injured.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/who-is-james-t-hodgkinson/530295/ |title=Who Is James T. Hodgkinson? |date=14 June 2017 |work=[[The Atlantic]] |access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref>
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|[[Battle of Sanaa (2017)]]
| {{Flag|Yemen}}
| {{DTS|2017|12|4|format=dmy}}
| [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]], Yemeni politician who served as the first [[President of Yemen|President of the Republic of Yemen]], he was killed on his way to [[Marib]] while trying to flee into Saudi-controlled territories after a [[rocket-propelled grenade]] struck and disabled his vehicle in an [[ambush]] and he was subsequently shot in the head by a Houthi sniper, something his party denied.<ref>{{cite news |title=Houthis reportedly gain control of majority of Sanaa |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/saleh-fate-unknown-house-bombed-houthis-171204095843076.html |publisher=Al Jazeera |date=4 December 2017 |access-date=4 December 2017 |archive-date=17 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617114526/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/saleh-fate-unknown-house-bombed-houthis-171204095843076.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal]]
| {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| {{DTS|2018|3|4|format=dmy}}
| [[Sergei Skripal]], a former Russian double agent, was poisoned alongside his daughter Yulia in the city of [[Salisbury]] with a [[Novichok agent]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/07/russian-spy-police-appeal-for-witnesses-as-cobra-meeting-takes-place |title=Sergei Skripal: former Russian spy poisoned with nerve agent, say police |last1=Dodd |first1=Vikram |last2=Harding |first2=Luke |last3=MacAskill |first3=Ewen |date=8 March 2018 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=28 May 2018}}</ref>
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|[[Assassination of Antonio Halili]]
| {{Flag|Philippines}}
| {{DTS|2018|7|2|format=dmy}}
| [[Antonio Halili]], Mayor of [[Tanauan, Batangas]], was assassinated by an unidentified gunman while attending a flag raising ceremony together with around 300 government employees and newly elected [[barangay]] officials.<ref name="philstar">{{cite news |last1=Amoroso |first1=Ed |last2=Ozaeta |first2=Arnell |title='Walk of shame' mayor shot dead |url=https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/07/03/1830115/walk-shame-mayor-shot-dead |work=The Philippine Star |date=3 July 2018 |access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref>
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|[[Attempted assassination of Jair Bolsonaro]]
| {{Flag|Brazil}}
| {{DTS|2018|09|06|format=dmy}}
| [[Jair Bolsonaro]], federal deputy and Brazilian presidential candidate, survived a stabbing at a campaign rally in [[Juiz de Fora]], [[Minas Gerais]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Dom |title=Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil presidential frontrunner stabbed at campaign rally |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-far-right-presidential-candidate-stabbed |website=The Guardian |access-date=1 December 2024}}</ref>
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|[[Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi]]
| {{Flag|Turkey}}
| {{DTS|2018|10|2|format=dmy}}
| [[Jamal Khashoggi]], Saudi Arabian dissident and journalist for ''The Washington Post'', was assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate by the Saudi Government in Istanbul, Turkey in what is widely believed to have been ordered directly by [[Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia|Crown Prince]] [[Mohammed bin Salman]].<ref name="nytasassination">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/world/middleeast/jamal-khashoggi-killing-saudi-arabia.html |title='Tell Your Boss': Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince More Strongly to Khashoggi Killing |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="bbcsaudi">{{cite news |title=Jamal Khashoggi: An unauthorised Turkey source says journalist was murdered in Saudi consulate |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45775819 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=7 October 2018 |access-date=7 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/26/us-intelligence-concludes-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-approved-killing-of-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-.html |title=U.S. Says Saudi crown prince approved Khashoggi killing, imposes visa restrictions on 76 Saudis |website=[[CNBC]] |date=26 February 2021}}</ref>
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|[[Assassination of Paweł Adamowicz]]
| {{Flag|Poland}}
| {{DTS|2019|1|13|format=dmy}}
| [[Paweł Adamowicz]], [[List of mayors of Gdańsk|Mayor]] of the city of [[Gdańsk]], was stabbed during a live charity event in Gdańsk by a former inmate. He died the following day.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-poland-stabbing-idUKKCN1P81HF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114200022/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-poland-stabbing-idUKKCN1P81HF |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 January 2019 |title=Liberal mayor of Poland's Gdansk dies after stabbing |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=14 January 2019}}</ref>
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|[[Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]]
| {{Flag|Syria}}
| {{DTS|2019|10|27|format=dmy}}
| [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]], the leader of [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIL]], was killed during a [[Barisha raid|raid by U.S. special forces]] in northwestern Syria.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50200339 |title=Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: IS leader 'dead after US raid' in Syria |work=[[BBC News]] |date=28 October 2019 |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>
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