In early July 2022, the U.S. military killed the top Syrian leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a drone strike in northwestern Syria. While the U.S. has continued to destroy ISIS militarily, many international observers have called for the prosecution of certain ISIS leaders before the International Criminal Court (ICC). ISIS, as well as other major terrorist groups, has committed acts that seem to fall under the international law definitions of crimes against humanity, or even genocide, which are among the crimes that the ICC prosecutes.

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