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　　The US Defense Secretary Ash Carter says American special forces will be deployed to Iraq tohelp fight Islamic State militants in both Iraq and Syria. Mr. Carter said the troops would be ableto carry out raids, free hostages and capture IS leaders. American special operators bring in aunique suite of capabilities that make them force mobile fliers. They will help us garnervaluable ground intelligence, further enhance our air campaign, and above all enable localforces that can regain and then hold territory occupied by ISIL. Where we find furtheropportunity to leverage such capability, we are prepared to expand it. Our Washingtoncorrespondent Gary O'Donoghue has more on the role of the US forces. A rather vividphrase that Ash Carter used in his testimony to Congress this morning, he said he wantedIslamic State fighters to wonder who is gonna come in through the window during the night.And so that there will be extra special forces possibly in Syria, certainly in Iraq. They willconduct raids. They will try to kill ISIS leaders. They will try rescue hostages. And this is allrecognition, I think, that the US feels it has to intensify the battle against Islamic State, thatthe air war is not enough. And it is calling on its coalition allies to do the same.

　　The United Nations has launched helicopter strikes against Ugandan rebels in the easternDemocratic Republic of Congo. The operation was in response to attacks by the AlliedDemocratic Forces on Sunday. Seven civilians were hacked to death in a hospital and more than20 others were killed in the clashes around the town of Beni in north Kivu province. The regionhas been plagued by dozens of armed groups.

　　The police chief in the US city of Chicago Garry McCarthy has been dismissed following renewedprotests about the killing of a black teenager in October last year. Video from the dashboardcamera of a police car was released last week showing the shooting of 17 year-old LaquanMcDonald. As aresult, a police officer was charged with first degree murder.

　　Hundreds of scientists have gathered in Washington for an international summit on geneediting. The Nobel Laureate David Baltimore said the delegates must consider what he called thedeep and disturbing questions raised by the new technology. From Washington, here's FergusWalsh. It's just three years since a new, cheap and easy form of gene editing was discoveredand already labs across the world have adopted it. It raises the hope that patients with muscle,blood or immune disorders could have their faulty tissue removed, treated in the lab and thenhealthy cells re-infused. But if gene editing was done in embryos, then any DNA changes wouldpass down the generations. That might allow a permanent fix for some genetic diseases.World news from the BBC.

　　The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has announced the birth of his first child, a girlcalled Max. And he has vowed to donate most of his fortune to make the world a better placefor her to grow up in. David Lee reports from Los Angeles. Mark Zuckerberg and wife PriscillaChan announced the news from a long letter to their daughter posted of course on Facebook.They said the Chen-Zuckerberg Initiative would focus on equality, education and advancinghuman capability. The couple said they would give away their stock value to the course at arate of around $1 billion per year;however, Zuckerberg said he would still retain overall powerof Facebook for the foreseeable future.

　　The campaigning organization Amnesty International says Eritrea's conscription system ishelping fuel a growing refugee crisis. Amnesty says the national service often amounts to forcedlabor with many conscripts made to work for decades often in nonmilitary jobs such asconstruction or farming. Tomi Oladipo reports. Amnesty is asking the international communityto recognize Eritrea system of indefinite national service as a human rights violation. Theorganization says this compulsory recruitment is the main reason why young Eritreans arefleeing the country. Most cannot leave legally, and end up on dangerous journeys across landand sea, heading often for Europe. Some people who fled the country told Amnesty of harshworking conditions for those drafted and brutal punishments by the military for any caughttrying to evade the system.

　　A former Argentine political prisoner and her son have met for the first time since she gavebirth in the cell of a clandestine detention center in 1976. The man Mario Bravo was given foradoption to a noncommunist family, a common practice during the dictatorship. He was reunitedwith his mother Sara after having doubts about his identity and agreeing to take DNA test. Mr.Bravo said meeting his mother alive was a miracle. BBC news.