Afghanistan, Oct. 10 -- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump imposed new sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday, extending Washington's campaign against the institution and raising tensions with European allies over international justice and accountability for war crimes.
According to Reuters, the measures were announced hours after South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former ICC Appeals Chamber judge, won the Nobel Peace Prize. The ICC condemned the sanctions as an attack on the rule of law and urged its 125 member states to defend the court and its ability to operate independently.
The new measures go beyond earlier U.S. sanctions targeting individual ICC judges and prosecutors, potentially exposing co...