Current events: 2023-01-26

Wikipedia Current Events · Jan 26, 2023

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    - Russia launches a wave of cruise missile and Shahed 129 drone strikes across Ukraine, targeting major cities and critical infrastructure, killing at least 11 people and injuring 11 others. Ukrainian general Valerii Zaluzhnyi says at least 20 missiles have been intercepted over the capital Kyiv. (The Guardian)
Somali Civil War (2009–present)
- American military intervention in Somalia
  - A U.S. military raid in northern Somalia kills senior Islamic State member Bilal al-Sudani and ten other insurgents. No U.S. military casualties are reported in the operation, which was ordered by U.S. President Joe Biden. (NBC News)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2023 Jenin killings
  - Four Al-Qassam militants, three Islamic Jihad members and two Palestinian civilians are killed and 20 others injured during a raid by Israeli soldiers and the ensuing gunfight in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. In a separated raid in Al-Ram, a Palestinian man is killed and two more injured by Israeli soldiers. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
Aftermath of the 2022 Haitian crisis
- Ten police officers are killed, one is critically injured and another is missing during a series of attacks in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by the Gan Grif gang. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections