Pakistan, July 14 -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday accused the International Criminal Court (ICC) of threatening American sovereignty and "waging a war" against the country.

"The ICC and its friends are waging a war against our country - not with bullets or missiles but with statutes, compacts and the force of so-called 'international law'".

He further said the court had "become the unaccountable arbiter of a new global law - empowered to prosecute and arrest our citizens at will".

Rubio described the court as "far more radical and extreme" than it had initially promised to be, saying it was "staffed by unelected globalist bureaucrats who claim their power is almost unlimited".

"The danger of this global court has only c...