May 26, 2023 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022–2023 Dnipro missile strikes
- A Russian missile strike on Dnipro damages a medical facility, killing two people and injuring 23 others. (Ukrainska Pravda) (The Guardian)
- 2022–2023 Dnipro missile strikes
- Somali Civil War
- Fifty-four Ugandan soldiers are killed after Al-Shabaab gunmen storm an AMISOM base in Bulomarer. (Al Jazeera)
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency, Kivu conflict
- Seventeen civilians are killed by Allied Democratic Forces members in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
- Mali War
- Germany's Bundestag votes 375–263, with one abstention, to approve the Bundeswehr's deployment in Mali as part of the UN's MINUSMA peacekeeping mission until May 31, 2024. (DW)
International relations
- Foreign nationals detained in Iran
- The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs swaps Asadollah Asadi for Belgian prisoner Olivier Vandecasteele. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Guatemalan general election
- The Constitutional Court of Guatemala blocks the candidacy of frontrunner Carlos Pineda in the 2023 Guatemalan general election due to alleged violations of electoral law. (AP)