ICC confirms Middle East Eye reporting on Afghanistan arrest warrants

The International Criminal Court (ICC) decided on Monday to make public two additional arrest warrants for members of the Taliban that were issued secretly last year. As previously revealed by Middle East Eye, the two warrants were issued confidentially by a panel of three judges in September 2025 and came two months after public warrants were issued for two leaders of the group, which now forms the government of Afghanistan. The four are facing charges of the crime against humanity of persecution on gender and political grounds, allegedly committed by the Taliban as the de facto government authority in Afghanistan from at least 15 August 2021 until at least 20 January 2025.