The following are events related to the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) that took place on this day.

2005

• A tragic helicopter crash in western Iraq claimed the lives of 30 Marines and one sailor. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from the 3d Marine Aircraft Wing was transporting personnel conducting a security mission and stability operations near Ruthbah in the Al Anbar province. Twenty-seven of the victims were from 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, and stationed out of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

2008

• Marines and sailors with 3d Marine Aircraft Wing (3d MAW) deployed to Iraq as part of the larger troop rotation plan to replace II Marine Expeditionary Force units with I MEF units. The following day, RCT-6 officially transferred its area of operations in Iraq to RCT-1 during a ceremony at Camp Fallujah.

• ISIL official spokesman at the time, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, released an audio statement in which he accepted an earlier pledge of allegiance by ISIL representatives and local terrorists in Pakistan and announced the expansion of ISIL’s caliphate with the creation of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP).

Casualties on January 26:

• ALANIZ, PAUL CHRISTOPHER – January 26, 2005
• BLAND, BRIAN DANIEL – January 26, 2005
• BOWLING, JONATHAN WILLIAMS – January 26, 2005
• BURK, TAYLOR JOSEPH – January 26, 2005
• ETTERLING, JONATHAN EDWARD – January 26, 2005
• FINKE, MICHAEL WAYNE JR – January 26, 2005
• FULLER, TRAVIS JOHN – January 26, 2005
• GIBSON, TIMOTHY MARK – January 26, 2005
• GILBERT, RICHARD ALAN JR – January 26, 2005
• GORDON, LYLE L – January 26, 2005
• GRIMES, KYLE JASON – January 26, 2005
• HERNANDEZ, TONY LEIGH – January 26, 2005
• HOPPER, BRIAN CHASE – January 26, 2005
• HOUSE, JOHN DANIEL – January 26, 2005
• JAFARKHANI-TORSHIZI, SAEED JR – January 26, 2005
• JOHNSON, STEPHEN PATRICK – January 26, 2005
• KELLY, SEAN PATRICK – January 26, 2005
• KIMBLE, DEXTER SETEMAN – January 26, 2005
• KINZER, WILLIAM SCOTT JR – January 26, 2005
• KLEIN, ALLAN – January 26, 2005
• KNIGHT, TIMOTHY ALLEN – January 26, 2005
• LINN, KARL RICHARD – January 26, 2005
• MACIEL, FRED LEE – January 26, 2005
• MOORE, JAMES LEE – January 26, 2005
• MOORE, NATHANIEL KENTION – January 26, 2005
• RAGIMOV, MOURAD – January 26, 2005
• RAIRDAN, RHONALD DAIN – January 26, 2005
• RAMOS, HECTOR – January 26, 2005
• SAINTVIL, GAEL – January 26, 2005
• SCHUBERT, NATHAN ALAN – January 26, 2005
• SCHUMANN, DARRELL JAMES – January 26, 2005
• SHUMNEY, DUSTIN MICHAEL – January 26, 2005
• SMITH, MATTHEW REED – January 26, 2005
• SPENCE, JOSEPH BOYD – January 26, 2005
• STARR, MICHAEL LENARD JR – January 26, 2005
• STRONG, JESSE WARNER – January 26, 2005
• WEAVER, CHRISTOPHER LEE – January 26, 2005
• FAIRLIE, NATHAN PAUL – January 26, 2007
• JOHNSON, ALAN RICARDO – January 26, 2007
• KAHLER, MATTHEW RYAN – January 26, 2008
• WILSON, ROBERT JOSEPH – January 26, 2008
• KELLEY, MATTHEW GENE – January 26, 2009
• TILLERY, JOSHUA MICHAEL – January 26, 2009
• TODD, BENJAMIN HARRIS – January 26, 2009
• WINDORSKI, PHILIP EUGENE JR – January 26, 2009
• GILL, CARLOS EDWARD – January 26, 2010
• SMITH, DAVID JAMES – January 26, 2010