BAGHDAD: US military intervention policies under the pretext of fighting terrorism following the 9/11 attacks have instead provoked terrorism and rooted it in Iraq, the Middle East as well as across the world, a political researcher has said.

The chaos caused by the US-led invasion of Iraq not only encouraged terrorism to continue in the country but also forced it to cross borders and become a regional issue, Hashim al-Shamma, a political researcher at the Iraqi Center for Legal Development, a nongovernmental organization, said in a recent interview with Xinhua.

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