{"id":4383,"date":"2026-11-13T22:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2026-11-13T22:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:03:44","slug":"judges-close-part-of-icc-afghanistan-investigations-that-could-look-at-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4383","title":{"rendered":"Judges close part of ICC Afghanistan investigations that could look at US troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Judges at the International Criminal Court have issued a decision to formally close part of the prosecutor\u2019s investigations into Afghanistan that previously \u200blooked at alleged crimes by US troops and to focus only \u200con actions of the Taliban since 2021, court documents show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision by the chamber formally closes not only the line of inquiry into alleged crimes by US troops, which \u200bhad already lain dormant since 2021, but also a probe into the \u200bIslamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) militia. The office of the prosecutor told \u2060<em>Reuters<\/em> on Friday it had appealed the decision but could not give further \u200bdetails.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest step in a legal tussle between prosecutors and judges \u200babout the Afghanistan case, and comes after the United States issued institutional sanctions against the court, citing US opposition to arrest warrants issued for Israeli officials and the investigation into actions \u200bof US soldiers in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>This year, judges ordered prosecutors to split their \u200bAfghanistan inquiries into two separate probes \u2014 one focusing on the alleged crimes committed by the \u200cTaliban since \u20602021, and the other on the original Afghanistan inquiry, which also looked at alleged war crimes by US troops but has shifted towards looking at the ISIS-K militia.<\/p>\n<p>Judges said they had decided to close part of \u200bthe case because prosecutors \u200bhad not shown \u2060they would be able to effectively investigate allegations in Afghanistan apart from the Taliban probe. The splitting of the \u200bcases means the arrest warrants issued against four Afghan Taliban leaders remain \u200bin effect.<\/p>\n<p>It \u2060is unclear if formally closing part of the Afghanistan case will be enough to allay American fears over the court exerting jurisdiction over US nationals, as it \u2060does \u200bnot change the court\u2019s founding statute. The statute \u200bsays the court can prosecute anyone accused of atrocity crimes committed on the territory of ICC member \u200bstates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges at the International Criminal Court have issued a decision to formally close part of the prosecutor\u2019s investigations into Afghanistan that previously \u200blooked at alleged crimes by US troops and to focus only \u200con actions of the Taliban since 2021, court documents show. The decision by the chamber formally closes not only the line of inquiry into alleged crimes by US troops, which \u200bhad already lain dormant since 2021, but also a probe into the \u200bIslamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) militia. The office of the prosecutor told \u2060Reuters on Friday it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}