Portal:Current events/2023 January 26

January 26, 2023 (Thursday)

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 that at least 20 missiles have been intercepted over the capital Kyiv. (The Guardian)
Somali Civil War
- 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 terrorists, three Islamic Jihad members and two Palestinian civilians are killed and 20 others are injured during a raid and subsequent gunfight by Israeli soldiers in Jenin, in the West Bank. In a separate raid in Al-Ram, a Palestinian man is killed and two others are 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)

Disasters and accidents

At least 21 people are killed after a passenger bus en route from N'djamena to Abéché crashed into a truck near Oum Hadjer, Batha Est Department, Chad. (Reuters)

International relations

Politics and elections