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• U.S., Coalition Continue Strikes Against ISIL in Syria, Iraq AFPS 08 Jan 2017 -- U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.
• Taliban Shrugs at US Plans to Send More Troops to Afghanistan VOA 08 Jan 2017 -- The Taliban has dismissed American plans to send 300 troops to Afghanistan's southern Helmand province as nothing but "solely to lend morale" to embattled Afghan forces "in hopes they hold out until spring."

Defense Policy / Programs

• Carter: U.S. Needs Strong, Balanced Approach to Russia AFPS 08 Jan 2017 -- The United States needs a strong but balanced approach to Russia, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said today on NBC's Meet the Press.
• Pentagon chief calls for broader US response to Russia Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has called for a broader response to Russia's alleged intervention in the recent US presidential election.
• Eagle Eye: Russia Restoring Its Early Missile Attack Warning System Sputnik 08 Jan 2017 -- In 2017 Russia will have a missile attack warning system covering its entire territory with advanced Voronezh radars capable of detecting enemy missile launches up to 6,000 kilometers away.
• Russian Strategic Missile Forces to Go Fully Digital by 2020 Sputnik 08 Jan 2017 -- Russia's Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) will completely switch to digital data transmission technologies by 2020, the Defense Ministry press service said in a statement.
• Guardian of the Skies: Pantsir-S Air Defense Missiles Deployed in Crimea Sputnik 08 Jan 2017 -- Two regiments of Pantsir-S and S-400 air defense missile systems were placed on combat duty in Crimea in December and January, RNS reported, citing the press service of the Southern Military District of the Russian Defense Ministry.
• Genuinely Domestic Design: Introducing China's HJ-8 Anti-Tank Missile Sputnik 08 Jan 2017 -- China's HJ-8 anti-tank missile is an original Chinese military design that has been exported to a number of countries over the recent years. Sputnik takes a deeper look at China's ultimate battle weapon.
• North Korea capable of hitting US mainland by ICBM: Pyongyang Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- North Korea claims it can test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of striking the US mainland at any time from any location, saying Washington's "hostile" policy has forced Pyongyang to develop such missiles.
• North Korea Aims to Complete New Ballistic Missile Development by 2018 Sputnik 08 Jan 2017 -- Amid political transitions in the United States and South Korea, the DPRK has set an ambitious goal of completing the development of ballistic missile capable of reaching America by year end.
• Pentagon Chief Carter on North Korean Ballistic Missile: We Would Shoot It Down Sputnik 08 Jan 2017 -- The Pentagon chief has pledged to shoot down a North Korean ballistic missile in case it is launched at the United States or its allies.
• Ex-Pakistan Army Chief to Lead Saudi-led Anti-terrorism Coalition VOA 08 Jan 2017 -- Pakistan's former army chief Raheel Sharif is said to have been appointed first commander-in-chief of a new counterterrorism coalition of 39 Islamic countries led by Saudi Arabia.
• Ivory Coast Mutiny Continues Despite Agreement; Defense Minister Briefly Held Sputnik 08 Jan 2017 -- Despite apparently having arrived at a deal with the president, Ivory Coast's mutiny has not ended, with soldiers launching protests in more cities and briefly trapping the defense minister and other officials in a house in Bouake.

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

• China Coast Guard vessels patrol Diaoyu Islands People's Daily 08 Jan 2017 -- China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels conducted a patrol in the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands on Sunday, according to the State Oceanic Administration website.
• Fighting in Yemen's Bab al-Mandeb strait kills 70 Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Two days of severe clashes in the Bab al-Mandeb strait between fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement and pro-Hadi troops have claimed the lives of some 70 soldiers from both sides.
• Syrian soldiers to score more gains against terrorists: Assad Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says government forces and fighters from allied popular groups are on the road to more victories in their battle against foreign-sponsored Takfiri terror groups.
• Syria ready to negotiate with opposition groups: President Assad Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he is "optimistic" about upcoming peace negotiations due to be held in Kazakhstan between representatives of Damascus and dozens of foreign-backed opposition groups.
• Iran warns of efforts made to torpedo Syria truce Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- A senior Iranian official says various parties are playing a role in the increasingly complicated political and security situation in Syria, warning of excuses to sabotage a nationwide truce across the Arab state.
• Syrian government approves plan to restore services to Aleppo Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- The Syrian government has adopted a plan of action meant to restore public services and security to the northwestern city of Aleppo, whose eastern side was recently liberated from the Takfiri militants.
• Iraqi Special Forces get to Tigris River in militant-held Mosul Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Members of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) have reached the eastern bank of the Tigris River in Mosul as they along with allied fighters and Kurdish Peshmerga forces try to expel Daesh terrorists from their last urban stronghold in the country.
• Turkey's prime minister meets with Iraq's Kurdistan leader Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has met with Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), in Erbil to discuss a range of regional issues.
• 4 Israeli Soldiers Killed, 15 Injured in Jerusalem Attack VOA 08 Jan 2017 -- Israeli police say a truck driven by a Palestinian slammed into a group of Israeli soldiers Sunday in a deliberate attack, killing four of them and injuring another 15, one seriously.
• Truck-ramming attack kills 4 Israeli soldiers, injures 18 in East Jerusalem al-Quds Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- At least four Israeli soldiers have been killed and more than a dozen others injured when a truck rammed into Israel's military forces in the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds.

News Reports

• Trump calls for closer ties between US and Russia Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- US President-elect Donald Trump has called for a closer relationship between the United States and Russia despite allegation of Moscow's meddling in the US presidential election, adding that only "stupid" people or "fools" would think close ties were unwise.
• Aide: Trump Accepts U.S. Intelligence On Russia Cyberattacks RFE/RL 08 Jan 2017 -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia tried to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, his incoming chief of staff says.
• Trump 'accepts' Russia launched cyber attacks, Priebus says Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- US President-elect Donald Trump "accepts" findings by the intelligence community that Russia embarked on hacking efforts in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election that gave him control over the White House, says his incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus.
• Obama Says He 'Underestimated' Impact of Russian Meddling on Election VOA 08 Jan 2017 -- U.S. President Barack Obama, in the wake of a U.S. intelligence conclusion that Russia meddled in the presidential election, says he "underestimated" the impact of the misinformation campaign and computer hacking on a democracy.
• 'British spies gave vital tipoff to US about alleged Russia hacking' Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- British intelligence services reportedly provided a major tip-off to the United States in 2015 about cyber operations to interfere in the November presidential election.
• Trump picks former Senator Coats as national intelligence director People's Daily 08 Jan 2017 -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that he will nominate former Senator Dan Coats for U.S. director of national intelligence.
• Turkey Says it Can Sell Companies, Strip Expats of Citizenship in Gulen Purge Sputnik 08 Jan 2017 -- Turkey has announced a new wave of firings, threatened to strip the citizenship of its nationals abroad and declared it has the right to sell seized companies, as the purge of supporters of Fethullah Gulen, the preacher and political figure Turkey blames for last year's failed coup attempt, rolls on.
• Former Iranian President Rafsanjani Dies At 82 RFE/RL 08 Jan 2017 -- Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a dominant figure in the country's politics for decades, has died from heart failure, state media report. He was 82.
• Former Iranian President Rafsanjani Dies at Age of 82 VOA 08 Jan 2017 -- Iranian state television has announced the death of former president and leading reformer Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
• Late Ayatollah Rafsanjani in brief IRNA 08 Jan 2017 -- Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani an influential politician and close ally to the Father of the Islamic Revolution the late Imam Khomeini in both pre and post-Islamic Revolution days and also Supreme Leader Ayatollah ASeyyed Ali Khamenei died on Sunday due to cardiac arrest in a Tehran hospital at the age of 82.
• Chairman of Expediency Council Ayatollah Rafsanjani passes away Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has passed away at the age of 82 due to heart condition.
• Leader condoles with Iranian nation on demise of Ayatollah Rafsanjani IRNA 08 Jan 2017 -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Sunday extended condolences to the Iranian nation on the demise of the late Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
• Leader expresses condolences over Rafsanjani's passing away Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has offered his condolences over the demise of Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
• Leader stresses need to identify enemies of Iran IRNA 08 Jan 2017 -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Sunday the important duty of the Iranian authorities and nation in the present juncture is to identify enemies of the country and their goals in order to confront them.
• Leader: Enemy after destroying Iran's national authority Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the enemy is seeking to destroy Iran's "national power," adding that authorities must work to strengthen the government's executive and judicial branches in the face of such plots.
• Defector: North Korean Army Chief Was Executed After Wiretap Sputnik 08 Jan 2017 -- A high-profile North Korean defector has offered support for theories that a former North Korean military chief, missing since 2012, was executed, likely after being wiretapped.
• Tsai transiting in Houston en route to Central America CNA 08 Jan 2017 -- President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in Houston Saturday for a brief transit stop on her way to Central America, a routine stopover that has been closely watched by Beijing after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke with her by phone recently.
• Texas Gov. Abbott, Ted Cruz Meet With Taiwan President Despite Beijing's Outcry Sputnik 09 Jan 2017 -- US officials have met with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen in Texas to discuss energy, trade relations and commercial ties as well as arms trade, despite China's protests.
• Nana Akufo-Addo sworn in as Ghana's new president Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Ghana's new president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has been sworn in after defeating incumbent John Dramani Mahama in last month's peaceful elections.
• New President Promises He Won't Let Ghana Down VOA 08 Jan 2017 -- Expectations are high as Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has now been sworn into office. Ghanaians want an end to current economic hardship.
• Turkey police identify Istanbul attacker, reports say Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- Turkish intelligence services and anti-terror police in Istanbul have identified the assailant who shot dead about 40 people at a nightclub in the port city during the early hours of the New Year's Day.
• West African leaders 'won't deploy forces to Gambia for now' Press TV 08 Jan 2017 -- West African leaders will continue mediation to ensure the peaceful transfer of power in The Gambia and have no plans to deploy armed forces to the country "for now," says Liberia's president.