Strabane ambush

Strabane ambush
Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner
Near the ambush site
Date 23 February 1985 Location Strabane, County Tyrone Northern Ireland 54°49′48″N 7°28′12″W / 54.83000°N 7.47000°W / 54.83000; -7.47000 Result British victory
Belligerents
Provisional IRA IRA West Tyrone Brigade	United Kingdom British Army (SAS)
Commanders and leaders
Charles Breslin †	Unknown
Strength
3 IRA Volunteers	8 soldiers
Casualties and losses
3 killed	None
class=notpageimage| Ambush at Strabane

The Strabane Ambush was a British Special Air Service ambush against a three man Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit. All three members of the IRA unit were killed in the ambush. At the time it was the most successful SAS operation against the IRA, until the Loughgall ambush two years later in 1987 in which eight IRA volunteers were killed.^[1]