The State Department said Thursday that it would freeze any assets that the ICC judges, who come from Benin, Peru, Slovenia and Uganda, have in U.S. jurisdictions.

By Stephanie van den Berg and Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS/THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The EU gave its backing on Friday to the International Criminal Court after Washington imposed sanctions on four ICC judges,

His comments came a day after President Donald Trump's administration 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.