• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • December 2017 Kabul suicide bombing
    • A suicide bombing at a Shi‘ite cultural center and news agency in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 41 people and injures 84 others. ISIL-affiliated Amaq News Agency says this group is responsible. (Reuters) (CNN)
• Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
  • Battle of Benghazi (2014–2017)
    • The Libyan National Army declares full control of Benghazi, the country's second largest city, after retaking the last district held by Islamist militants. (Reuters)
• Syrian Civil War
  • The White Helmets reports that Syrian government and Russian warplanes, using rockets and internationally-banned weapons - including vacuum bombs, repeatedly strike residential areas in the town of Al-Lataminah and six villages in Idlib province, killing 22 people. (Daily Sabah)

• Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are voted the most admired man and woman in the United States, according to Gallup's annual poll. (CNN)

• • Twelve people are dead in an apartment fire in The Bronx area of New York City. (AP via Yahoo!)

• Turkey–United States relations
  • United States consular missions in Turkey and the Embassy of Turkey, Washington, D.C. announce they will resume visa services. (France 24)

• Crime in the Philippines
  • In Mandaluyong, Philippines, law enforcers mistakenly fired at a Mitsubishi Adventure, which they thought carried suspects in a previous shooting incident, resulting in two people dead and two others injured. As a result, 10 police officers were relieved from the post. (GMA News)(Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Same-sex marriage in the United States
  • The Oregon Court of Appeals upholds a $135,000 fine against the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Sweet Cakes by Melissa v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. A similar case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission has reached the Supreme Court of the United States with a decision expected in June 2018. (NBC News)
• 2017 Wichita, Kansas swatting
  • Police shoot and kill a man in Wichita, Kansas, after a hoax emergency call sends them there. (BBC)

• Liberian general election, 2017
  • With 98 percent of the votes counted, Liberia’s National Elections Commission announces these unofficial results show Senator George Weah, a former Pro footballer, defeating vice president Joseph Boakai, 61.5 to 38.5 percent, in the runoff of October's presidential election, to succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female Liberian president. (The New York Times)