Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Humanitarian aid during the Gaza war
      • Five aid convoys from the United Arab Emirates carrying 938 tonnes of humanitarian aid arrive in Gaza as part of Operation Chivalrous Knight 3. (Gulf Today) (Sharjah24)
    • The Israel Defense Forces confirm that a Hamas unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) unit commander was killed in a airstrike yesterday in the central Gaza Strip. (The Times of Israel)
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Iran war ceasefire
      • Pakistan in the 2026 Iran war, Qatar as a mediator in conflict
        • The United States and Iran submit their responses to a proposal by Pakistan and Qatar to resume talks between the two countries. (The Jerusalem Post)
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy claims to have prevented six ships from transiting the Strait of Hormuz. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Vietnamese cargo ship {{mv|Khoi Nguyen 18||2}} sinks in the South China Sea along the Vietnamese coast. Forty-five people are rescued while 17 more are still missing. (CNA)

International relations

• Iran–Ukraine relations, Ukraine in the 2026 Iran war
  • The Iranian foreign ministry summons the Ukrainian chargé d'affaires in Tehran over an attack by Ukraine on an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea that killed an Iranian sailor, calling it a "hostile and criminal act". (CNBC)

Law and crime

• 2026 Berlin Pride van attack
  • A suspect in a recent vehicle-ramming and mass stabbing attack in Berlin, identified as a 21-year-old German citizen of Lebanese descent, is shot and killed by police after allegedly rushing toward officers with a weapon. (CNN)

Science and technology

• Expedition 74
  • Expedition 74 aboard the International Space Station ends with the undocking of Soyuz MS-28 and its subsequent landing on Earth in Kazakhstan. (CNN)

July 26: Independence Day in the Maldives (1965), Kargil Vijay Diwas in India

• 1759 – French and Indian War: Troops led by French brigadier general François-Charles de Bourlamaque attempted to blow up Fort Carillon, near present-day Ticonderoga, New York, rather than defending it against approaching British forces.
• 1882 – Boer mercenaries established the Republic of Stellaland (later flag pictured) in land claimed by the United Kingdom as part of British Bechuanaland.
• 1953 – The Battle of the Samichon River, the last engagement of the Korean War, ended a few hours before the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
• 1968 – After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South Vietnamese military court for illicit currency transactions.
• 2012 – The New Irish Republican Army was formed from a merger of a number of dissident republican militant groups.