assassins

So, context. A lot people are familiar with the Order of Assassins, or Hashashins (Probably mostly from Assassin's Creed). However, what some people might be unaware of is that the Hashasins were actually an independent theocracy that had a network of castles from Syria to Persia/Iran, that...

There have been multiple societies of assassins over the centuries, the most famous of which are probably the Sicarii of Roman Judea, the ninja of feudal Japan, and of course the Order of Assassins aka the Hashshashin of the Nizari Ismaili state. So my question is this: are there other times...