Trump Admin Targets ICC Leadership Over Gaza and Afghanistan Probes

The Trump administration sanctioned ICC President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, freezing their U.S.-based assets and cutting them off from the U.S. financial system, as part of a broader effort to dismantle the court amid ICC investigations into alleged war crimes in Gaza and Afghanistan. Rubio called the ICC corrupt and politicized and argued it lacks jurisdiction over non-member states like the U.S. and Israel, while the ICC said the sanctions undermine the rule of law.