A picture taken on December 7, 2015 shows smoke billowing in the rural town of Husayba, in the Euphrates Valley seven kilometres (4.5 miles) east of Ramadi, where Iraqi government forces have been closing on Daesh terrorists who seized the Anbar province. AFP
- The head of Iraq's parliamentary security and defense committee has accused the US of deliberately killing 20 Iraqi soldiers in the province of Anbar. Hakim al-Zamili noted that the army was conducting an operation in Fallujah when it came under attack. The US military has not ruled out the incident.
- U-S President Barack Obama has urged Turkish President Rejeb Tayyip Erdogan to withdraw Turkish troops from Iraq. The US president made the plea in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart. Iraq has condemned the deployment as a violation of international law.
- President Obama has enacted a bill which imposes new sanctions on banks that knowingly do business with the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. The law also targets Hezbollah’s television channel al-Manar by aiming to cut the broadcast of satellite operators that air the channel’s programs.
- The U-N Security Council unanimously passes a resolution which endorses an international roadmap for Syria peace process. The resolution also calls for formal peace talks and a nationwide ceasefire to be launched in January. The negotiating sides still remain divided over the fate of Syrian President Basher al-Assad.
- Syria’s envoy to the U-N Bashar al-Ja’afari welcomes the UN Security Council adoption of the Syria resolution. Ja’afari says all Syrians must take part in a comprehensive political process to determine the future of their country. He stressed that Damascus will not negotiate with terrorist groups.
- Yemen's Ansarullah fighters and allied army units fire a ballistic missile at a Saudi base in Ma'rib province killing at least 180 mercenaries. Earlier, the Yemeni forces targeted another Saudi base in Najran using ballistic missiles. The attacks come in response to intensified Saudi airstrikes.
- Fresh clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia near the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region have reportedly left at least five Azerbaijani troops dead. Both countries have accused each other of having initiated the fighting. This follows reports of heavy artillery being used in the conflict for the first time.
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