December 17, 2006 (Sunday)
- Armed militia in Peru ambush and kill seven people involved in a crackdown on the illegal growing of coca. (BBC)
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offers to share Iran's nuclear technology with neighboring countries. (Concorde Monitor)
- Hamas-Fatah conflict:
- Masked gunmen kill an officer of an elite force loyal to the President of PNA Mahmoud Abbas in a dawn raid on a Gaza training camp as tensions worsen between Hamas and Fatah. (Reuters)
- The two sides now say that they have agreed to a ceasefire. (Haaretz)(BBC)
- A roadside bomb kills three United States Army soldiers and wounds another north of Baghdad. (USA Today)
- Masked gunmen kidnap 30 workers from the Red Crescent in Iraq with six low-level employees of the organisation later being released. (CNN)
- A climber who had been lost on Oregon's Mount Hood is found dead in a snow cave minutes after rescuers were exploring a nearby cave with various related equipment inside. (Fox News)