- At least 12 dead, 30 injured after driver plows into New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans
- During New Year’s night attack 1 person killed, 7 wounded as result of Russian drone attack in Kyiv
- In New Year, Putin seeks new Russian stronghold in Libya after losing Syria
- France conducts missile strikes on ISIS targets in Syria
- Chinese President Xi Jinping declared in a New Year address that “no one can stop reunification with Taiwan.”