United Nations and other humanitarian workers were attacked, ambushed, kidnapped and sometimes murdered, for example, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan.

In Northern Darfur, SLA ambushed several convoys and vehicles belonging to or engaged by humanitarian organizations along the Kabkabiya El Fasher road.

On 9 July, an Afghan National Police patrol was ambushed in Helmand province, leaving at least 10 policemen dead, of whom six had been decapitated.

Civilians trying to break through the siege and escape were ambushed and ruthlessly killed by the Armenian militants on the roads and in the forests.

So it's about time that we talked about how the computer ambushed television, or why the invention of the atomic bomb unleashed forces that lead to the writers' strike.

On 8 October, five members of an AMIS patrol were killed the mission's first such deaths during a firefight with an armed group that had earlier ambushed and killed two civilian contractors in southern Darfur.