As of 2026-10-12, Tongo Tongo ambush tops the list with 60 deaths.
- #1 Tongo Tongo ambush — 60 deaths
2017 attack on Nigerien and US soldiers by Islamist militants in Tongo Tongo, Niger
The Tongo Tongo ambush or the Niger ambush occurred on 4 October 2017, when armed militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) attacked Nigerien and US soldiers outside the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, while they were returning to base after a stop in the village. During the ambush, four Nigeriens, four US soldiers, and at least 21 ISGS militants were killed, and eight Nigeriens and two US soldiers were wounded. In the day preceding the ambush, the Nigerien and US soldiers... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #2 Warrenpoint ambush — 19 deaths
guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 27 August 1979
On 27 August 1979, the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ambushed a British Army convoy with two large roadside bombs at Narrow Water Castle outside Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. The first bomb was aimed at the convoy itself, and the second targeted the incoming reinforcements and the command point set up to deal with the incident. Provisional IRA volunteers hidden in nearby woodland also allegedly fired on the troops, who returned fire. The Narrow Water Castle is... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #3 Coatepec Harinas attack — 17 deaths
Ambush against police forces in Coatepec Harinas, México
source Wikidata - #4 Battle of Roquefixade — 16 deaths
1944 ambush
source Wikidata - #5 September 2021 Bamessing ambush — 15 deaths
Separatist ambush during the Anglophone Crisis
On 16 September 2021, two Ambazonian separatist groups, namely the Bambalang Marine Forces and Jaguars of Bamessing, ambushed a military convoy near Bamessing, Ngo-Ketunjia. The ambush was among the deadliest individual separatist attacks during the Anglophone Crisis, and led to the announcement of a "paradigm shift" by Cameroon's Defense Minister Joseph Beti Assomo six days later. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #6 Kikideni ambush — 15 deaths
On October 29, 2022, gunmen from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin ambushed a convoy of Burkinabé soldiers near the village of Kikideni while they were on their way from Fada N'gourma to Natiaboani, Est Region, Burkina Faso. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #7 Ljuboten incident — 10 deaths
2001 attacks in Macedonia
The Ljuboten incident, also known as Ljubotenski Bacila massacre and Luboten massacre, happened in early August 2001, when eight soldiers were killed after a Macedonian Army truck convoy composed of reservists ran over a landmine near the village of Ljuboten and a police operation was led in the village by Johan Tarčulovski afterwards. Tarčulovski was convicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2008. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #8 Uzbin Valley ambush — 10 deaths
2008 military Skirmish Between Taliban and French ISAF Forces in Afghanistan
French International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops were ambushed by Afghan Taliban insurgents, with heavy casualties, in the Uzbin Valley outside the village of Spēṟ Kunday in the Surobi District of Kabul province in eastern Afghanistan on 18 August 2008. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #9 Shuja'iyya ambush — 9 deaths
2023 military engagement in the Gaza Strip
source Wikidata - #10 2024 Reasi ambush — 9 deaths
2024 ambush in Reasi, India
The 2024 Reasi attack was a terrorist attack that occurred on 9 June 2024 in the Reasi district of the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Several unidentified Islamist terrorists opened fire on a passenger bus transporting Hindu pilgrims from the Shiv Khori cave to Katra, causing it to lose control and plummet into a deep gorge, followed by further firing at the crashed bus by the gunmen. Nine people were killed in the attack, and an additional 41 were injured. Read more on Wikipedia.
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