• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Two female suicide bombers kill more than 58 people at a camp for displaced people in Dikwa, Nigeria. (CNN) (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) (ABC News)
  • At least six people are killed and more than 30 injured in a twin suicide attack in Cameroon near the border with Nigeria. (International Business Times) (Newsweek)
• PKK rebellion (2015–present)
  • At least two Turkish Army soldiers are killed in clashes with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) insurgents in the southeast Şırnak Province. (Rudaw)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Northern Aleppo offensive (2016)
    • The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly take control of the Menagh Military Airbase in the northern Aleppo Governorate after Ahrar ash-Sham, Levant Front and Free Syrian Army fighters withdraw amid Russian airstrikes. (Al Masdar News)
• War in Donbass
  • Four people are killed after a minibus hit a landmine near a Ukrainian military checkpoint in the Donetsk Oblast. (Kyiv Post)

• Adair Turner former head of the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority, warns against the growth of peer-to-peer lending, telling the BBC that the practice will cause grave losses over the next five to ten years. (BBC)

• An Indonesian Air Force plane on a routine training flight crashes into a house in the city of Malang in the East Java province, killing four people and injuring one. (International Business Times)

• 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic
  • A pregnant Australian woman in the state of Queensland tests positive for the Zika virus. (ABC News Australia via MSN)
  • China reports first case of Zika virus disease in a man who had traveled to Venezuela. (ABC News)

• European migrant crisis
  • NATO, during a two-day meeting, considers request from Turkey and Greece to monitor migrant transit in the Aegean Sea and to combat human traffickers squeezing refugees onto unsafe boats. (Reuters) (Deutsche Welle)
• Rojava conflict
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blasts the United States over its support for Syrian Kurdish groups which Turkey considers to be terrorists. (AFP via GlobalPost) (VideoNews)

• A shootout in Abingdon, Maryland results in the deaths of two Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies and the suspected gunman. (CNN), (WBAL TV)
• North Korea reportedly executes Ri Yong-gil, Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army on charges of corruption, according to South Korean media. (BBC)
• Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
  • The FBI, in armored vehicles, closes to within 50 yards (40 meters) of the last four anti-government militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Negotiations to end the standoff without violence continue. (Reuters) (OregonLive)

• 2016 United States presidential election
  • New Jersey Governor Chris Christie suspends his campaign for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States. (CNN) (BBC)
  • Republican Party presidential candidate Carly Fiorina suspends her campaign following a disappointing finish in the New Hampshire primary. (USA Today)
• The Parliament of Australia considers the Turnbull Government's proposed legislation to legalize the growing of marijuana for medical use. The bill is expected to pass. (AP via The Washington Post) (Japan Today)
• French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announces his resignation. President Francois Hollande says he will nominate Fabius to lead the country's Constitutional Council. (NPR) (UPI)
• Latvian parliament approves the new government of Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis following the resignation of Laimdota Straujuma in early December. (Reuters)

• The owners of Liverpool F.C. scrap a controversial £77 ticket pricing plan for the 2016–17 season following a backlash by the club's supporters and a mass walkout during last week's game with Sunderland A.F.C. at Anfield. (Sky News)