The recent spate of terrorist assaults on capitals around the world represent a global threat, Italian premier Matteo Renzi said on Friday.
"In recent months, Paris, Copenhagen and Brussels have been targeted," Renzi said after he attended a European Union summit in Brussels.
"We are facing a global threat," he stated.
As recently as on Friday, the Islamic State extremist group claimed twin suicide bombings of two central mosques in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, used by Houthi Shia Muslims, which killed scores and injured hundreds.
On Wednesday, a gun and grenade attack on the famous Bardo museum in the Tunisian capital Tunis killed 23 people including 20 foreign tourists.
The Bardot museum assault, claimed by the Islamic State, also put the Mediterranean region under the spotlight, Renzi stated.
"We need to concentrate increasing attention on the Mediterranean," Renzi said.
In February, a Danish-born gunman of Jordanian-Palestinian origins shot dead two people in attacks in Copenhagen before being killed by police in an exchange of fire. The 22-year-old had reportedly earlier sworn allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group.
In January, 17 people were killed in coordinated attacks on French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Kosher grocery store by gunmen linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
The same month, over 12 jihadist suspects were arrested over an alleged plot to target police in Belgium, where a suspected jihadist gunmen killed four people at the Jewish museum in Brussels last year.
