WASHINGTON/THE HAGUE >> President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court, an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has denounced the fresh sanctions of the United States on its personnel, this time against four female judges, calling it a move to undermine the judicial independence of The Hague-based tribunal.

The move is retaliation over the war tribunal's probe into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and over an arrest warrant for Israel's Netanyahu.