The US has intensified its conflict with the International Criminal Court (ICC), threatening severe sanctions unless its demands are met.
Chief among them is an extraordinary request to amend the Rome Statute to bar the ICC from ever investigating or prosecuting President Donald Trump or senior US officials.
Washington is also demanding the ICC drop its Gaza investigations into Israeli leaders, including ICC arrest warrants issued last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, and formally end a past probe into alleged war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan.
The US says the ICC violates American sovereignty and warns that failure to comply could result in sanctions on the court itself.
