International Criminal Court

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said she was weighing bringing war crimes charges against militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in an interview published Nov. 20.

Fatou Bensouda told the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that such steps would be possible for extremists whose home countries have signed on to the ICC's treaty.        

Israeli forces may have committed war crimes when they stormed an aid flotilla boat heading to Gaza, but the possible crimes aren't grave enough to merit a prosecution at the International Criminal Court, the court's prosecutor said Nov. 6.

International prosecutors believe Israeli soldiers may have committed war crimes during the raid on the Mavi Marmara that killed nine Turkish citizens in 2010, but have decided the case is beyond their remit, according to court papers seen by Reuters.

In his first ever official visit to Montenegro on Friday, the chief prosecutor of the Hague-based court said that he had come to the country to encourage the authorities to do more to deal with war crimes.

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