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(ICC) has selected British human rights lawyer Karim Khan to be its next chief prosecutor. Khan won the position after earning the support of 72 nations, 10 more than 62 required, and beating out candidates from Ireland, Spain, and Italy. The 50-year-old was selected by secret ballot for the first time in the ICC’s history. A longtime attorney, Khan has worked in the past for the United Nations probing atrocities committed by ISIS. As the UN’s chief prosecutor, Khan has called for international human rights tribunals for surviving ISIS commanders akin to the Nuremberg Trials of the 1940s. Previously, Khan represented Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto before the ICC and successfully convinced judges to dismiss the charges against Ruto. He also represented Seif Al-Islam, the son of former Libyan dictator Muammar Ghaddafi. Khan will replace Fateh Bensouda as the ICC’s prosecutor when she steps down on June 15. Over the past nine years, the Gambian prosecutor has proved to be enormously controversial, initiating war crimes probes into Western nations while ignoring atrocities committed by Russia, China, and Iran. In July, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Bensouda after she announced that she would probe the U.S. for possible war crimes in Afghanistan. The Biden administration has kept the sanctions in place despite signaling that it will take a less confrontational approach to the ICC. Last week, the ICC announced that it is permitted to probe Israel for
The Taliban has launched a new offensive that leaves the Islamist group close to retaking key cities throughout Afghanistan only weeks before a planned U.S. withdrawal is set to begin. Kandahar, a major economic center and the focus of years of U.S. military operations, is now in danger of being conquered by the Taliban after fighters overran its surrounding suburbs. In Kunduz, Taliban operatives used suicide drones and their control of the high ground to seize a dozen positions and army bases. With the Taliban now dominating all of the highways and access routes leading to the capital of Kabul, the group stands poised to rule vast swaths of the country just as the U.S. plans to withdraw its remaining troops. Under a peace agreement the Trump administration reached with the Taliban in 2020, all foreign soldiers are slated to leave the war-torn country by May 1. The Taliban’s battlefield success is now complicating the planned draw-down as senior Pentagon officials warn that withdrawing U.S. troops would effectively hand Afghanistan to the extremist group. With no foreign military forces left to stop them, the Taliban would likely continue its offensive until it retakes
