Approval in Senate unlikely, but vote illustrates continued unconditional support for Israel among US lawmakers.

Russia has scoffed at the United States’ reaction to the potential issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli officials over Tel Aviv’s Washington-backed war of genocide against the Gaza.

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message referred to US officials' new decision to impose economic sanctions on members of the International Criminal Court and urged the international community to wake up to smell the consequences of appeasing the bully. International Criminal COURT now blackmailed by lawless gang posing ...

IRNA Iranian Center for International Criminal Law (ICICL) has called on the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate war crimes committed by Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen since 2015. "The request is submitted with the aim of seeking international justice for the Yemeni victims by bringing those individuals responsible for ...

AP - The Latest on the U.S. stance against the International Criminal Court (all times local): 6:30 a.m. Irans foreign minister is criticizing the United States for its opposition to the International Criminal Court. Mohammad Javad Zarif said on his Twitter account Tuesday, The US threatens to impose sanctions on the ICC & even prosecute its ...

Press TV - The Arab League (AL) has condemned Tel Avivs crimes against humanity in Gaza, demanding that the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) launch investigations into Israels recent killings of unarmed Palestinian protesters. The pan-Arab body convened at the regional groupings headquarters in Cairo on Tuesday on an ...

Tasnim Irans representative at a meeting of the International Criminal Court (ICC) called on the tribunal to address the concerns of a number of African nations that have decided to withdraw from the court, describing it as sign of discontent with the organizations conduct. Addressing the 15th session of the ICCs Assembly of States Parties, ...

On June 26, the government of Palestine deposited the instrument of adoption of the amendments to the Rome Statute to the president of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC), practically opening the way for this international organisation, which is based in the Dutch city of The Hague, to investigate and prosecute ...

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki is set to deliver files on Israeli war crimes in the West Bank and Gazato the International Criminal Court (ICC). According to Palestinian Ma'annews agency, the files are to be submitted onThursday by al-Maliki, who is leading and a high-profile delegation to The Hague-based tribunal. The ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday Israel had released frozen tax revenue to the Authority but that he had ordered the funds to be returned because money had been deducted to cover debts to Israeli utility companies. Israel started withholding around $130 million a month in tax and customs revenue ...

Netanyahus comments come after the resignation of commission head, Canadian academic, following Israeli accusations that his previous work with the Palestine Liberation Organization would lead to bias in the findings. MOSCOW, February 3 (Sputnik) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu onTuesday called forthe UN anti-Israel commission toshelve ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary General of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ahmad Jibril expressed pessimism about the results of the preliminary investigations that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has decided to launch into Israel's war crimes in the Palestinian territories, stressing that the Zionist regime should be stopped by force....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Monday he opposes the Palestinians' move to join the International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel. Obama spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The White House said Obama told Netanyahu that the Palestinian Authority isn't yet a state and isn't eligible ...

[caption id="attachment_142667" align="alignright" width="168"] A Palestinian boy looks out through a hole in his family house witnesses said was damaged by Israeli shelling during the July-August Gaza war, Gaza City January 4, 2015. (Reuters)[/caption] The crimes Israel committed in the most recent Gaza war will be part of the first case the Palestinians ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The State of Palestine will become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 60 days, Palestines permanent observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told journalists. Mansour announced the transfer to the UN Secretariat of documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and a number of other ...

The Israeli regime has made a quick reaction to a request by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for Palestine to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority should fear being in a unity government with Hamas. Bibi further accused the resistance group of ...

[caption id="attachment_124850" align="alignright" width="144"] The Turkish ship Mavi Marmara (file photo), which was attacked back in 2010 by Israeli forces (file photo)[/caption] Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have decided not to open a probe into a 2010 Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine Turkish activists ...

[caption id="attachment_112816" align="alignright" width="175"] A meeting of the UN Security Council (file photo)[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Palestinians will submit a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council later this month, calling for an end date for the Israeli regimes occupation. The text, which has already been circulated ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israel-based rights organization filed a war crimes complaint against the top leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday for executing Palestinians without trial during the Gaza war this summer. The Shurat HaDin Law Center filed the war crimes complaint against Khaled Mashaal, who ...

[caption id="attachment_112958" align="alignright" width="270"] Mahmoud Abbas has said he will not make any decision on a bid without the written backing of all Palestinian factions. Photograph: Amr Nabil/AP[/caption] Hamas says it will support proposal that could expose both the Islamist group and Israel to war crimes investigations Hamashas signed ...