[1] Information about allegations of crimes committed by other international military forces in Afghanistan was also sought.

[1] In 2019, the request by Fatou Bensouda, the ICC chief prosecutor, to open an investigation was rejected at the pretrial level on the grounds that the chance of a successful prosecution was low, much time had passed, Afghan and US authorities were uncooperative, and the investigation wouldn't "serve the interests of justice".

[4] On 11 June 2020, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the signing of Executive Order 13928 by US President Donald Trump,[5] establishing economic sanctions and visa travel restrictions against ICC lawyers and investigators as well as journalists providing evidence of war crimes by US citizens and military troops.

Richard Dicker of Human Rights Watch criticised the imposition of sanctions, stating that they "[mark] a stunning perversion of US sanctions, devised to penalize rights abusers and kleptocrats, to persecute those tasked with prosecuting international crimes".

[8] On January 23, 2025, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that his office had filed two applications for arrest warrants for two senior Taliban officials, namely the Supreme Leader of the organization Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the Chief Justice of Afghanistan Abdul Hakim Haqqani.