Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday ruled that prosecutor Karim Khan can resume his investigations into atrocities in Afghanistan, a probe that had been put on hold for more than two years.
According to the ruling, published by the ICC, the judges said the investigation could move forward as Kabul "is not presently carrying out genuine investigations" into the alleged crimes under the ICC's jurisdiction, as it had earlier insisted.
In September last year, Khan announced he wanted to resume the probe into crimes by the Taliban and the ISIS-K militant group, and said prosecutors would "deprioritize" looking into suspected crimes by US forces and Afghan government troops.
The judges, however, stressed that "the present authorization relates to all alleged crimes and actors that were subject" to the prosecution's 2017 request to open a probe, which names the Taliban, Afghan government forces, and United States forces as possible groups involved in alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity but does not mention ISIS-K.
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