Armed conflicts and attacks
Iraqi insurgency
The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi promises a crackdown on corruption after an audit shows that there were 50,000 ghost soldiers in the Army. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
The Iraq Prime Minister fires 24 Interior Ministry officials while the Islamic State kills at least 15 police officers near the border with Syria. (AP via Daily Mail)
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Maoist rebels kill 14 Central Reserve Police Force members in an ambush in Chhattisgarh, central India. (BBC)
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:
War in Afghanistan:
A suicide bomb kills at least nine, including two policemen, at a funeral for a tribal elder in Baghlan Province, northern Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
A search continues for 52 people missing from a South Korean fishing vessel, the Oriong-501, that sank early in the morning in bad weather in the Bering Sea off Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Eight people have been rescued including one person who subsequently died. (Voice of America)