ICC seeks arrest of 2 top Taliban leaders over crimes against Afghani women

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July 8 (UPI) -- The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for two top Taliban officials over a plethora of allegations of crimes against women and young girls. The court, based in the Hague, Netherlands, issued its international arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and its chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, over "reasonable grounds" of crimes against humanity on girls, women and "other persons non-conforming with the Taliban's policy on