U.S Sanctions ICC Officials After Court Opens War Crimes Investigation On Alleged US Wrongdoing in Afghanistan

VOA: Trump Sanctions ICC Officials Probing Alleged US Wrongdoing in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump imposed new travel and property sanctions Thursday on International Criminal Court officials, attempting to penalize them for investigating alleged wrongdoing by U.S. military personnel and intelligence operatives fighting against terrorism in Afghanistan over the past 18 years.

Trump declared a national emergency, calling the ICC investigation at The Hague “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

Trump’s order blocks an untold number of unnamed ICC officials from entering the U.S., and it keeps them from carrying out financial and property transactions in the U.S.

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