WASHINGTON/THE HAGUE >> President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court, an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.

The United States on Thursday sanctioned four International Criminal Court Judges, citing investigations into U.S. personnel in Afghanistan and Israeli leaders.

The move is retaliation over the war tribunal's probe into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and over an arrest warrant for Israel's Netanyahu.