AFP reports that Italian authorities are searching for five Daesh militants who may be targeting major national landmarks.
The FBI share intelligence with Italian authorities about the possible attacks.
"The minister of the interior has explained many times that we are at a very high level of alert covering symbolic sites, places where people gather, from stadiums to cathedrals, and St Peter's in particular, which were, among others, the places highlighted by the FBI yesterday," Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Thursday to the Raitre television station.
"We always take such signals of alarm very seriously, especially when they come from the United States." Gentiloni continued.
As Al Bawaba previously reported, a suspect behind the November 13 Paris attacks was spotted in Italy on Monday.
