The High Cost of Defeating the Islamic State

U.N.: A military defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq could scatter extremists around the globe.

BY COLUM LYNCH-MAY 29, 2015

This story was updated

Would the world be a safer place if the United States and its allies were to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria? Not necessarily, according to a U.N. Security Council counterterrorism monitoring team.

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