![The Growing Crisis With the International Criminal Court](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/03/ICC.png)
In April, the Pre-Trial Chamber (PTC) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) refused to authorize an investigation into alleged war crimes that have been committed in Afghanistan since 2003. The Prosecutor’s 20,000-page request, issued in November 2017, would have opened a broad investigation, including a probe into possible war crimes committed by U.S. military personnel. [...]