 List of assassinations by the Assassins

List of assassination (attempt)s attributed to the Assassins (Hashshashins), active in Greater Iran, Egypt and the Levant, in the 11th through 13th centuries.The Assassins were a group of Nizari Ismaili Shia Muslims that, by capturing or building impregnable forts, established a "state" of their own inside the hostile territories of the Seljuk Empire, a Sunni Muslim government, first in Persia and later in Iraq and the Levant.