‘World Paying for US War on Terror’ – Italy

Italy says Washington’s so-called war on terror, which was launched in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001, is to blame for the current global wave of terrorism Press T.V reported.

“We are still paying, after 15 years, the consequences of what was supposed to be a lightning war to eliminate the terrorist threat,” Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy said.

The comment came in a letter published in Corrieredella Sera daily published on Wednesday, responding to an editorial that suggested Rome should not have rejected France’s call to join the US-led coalition that allegedly bombs the positions of DaeshTakfiri terror group in Iraq and Syria.

Since September 2014, the United States military, along with some of its allies, has been conducting combat sorties against what are said to be Daesh positions inside Syria, without any authorization from the government in Damascus or a UN mandate.

The campaign in Syria is an extension of a similar series of military operations against the same purported positions in Iraq, which started in August 2014. The mission in both countries, however, has fallen severely short of dislodging the terrorists.

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