Armed guards from the security company once known as Blackwater Worldwide are still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, even though it has no license to operate there and has been told by the State ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq told the United States this week that it won't renew the license of Blackwater Worldwide, a North Carolina-based security firm that's provided protection for U.S. diplomats in Iraq but ...

Russia’s Wagner Group, a private military company closely tied to the Kremlin, has become one of the most lethal and controversial PMCs in the modern era. Active across Ukraine, Syria, Libya, and ...

Can Blackwater incidents shed light on contractors' mental health? Oct. 3, 2007 — -- Along with congressional hearings on allegations of recklessness against Blackwater USA security forces in ...

The State Department will not renew Blackwater Worldwide's contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May, a senior U.S. official said Friday. The official told The Associated ...

Blackwater, the controversial private security company used extensively by the U.S. in Iraq, may have paid $1 million in bribes to Iraqi officials in late 2007, The New York Times reports. The bribes ...

Khalaf said Blackwater employees who have not been implicated in the 2007 shooting have the right to work in Iraq but must find a different employer. Two other U.S.-based security contractors working ...

Blackwater "has a client who will support them no matter what they do," said H.C. Lawrence Smith, deputy director of the Private Security Company Association of Iraq, an advocacy organization in ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said on Monday it would launch lawsuits in U.S. and Iraqi courts against a U.S. security firm accused in the 2007 killing of civilians in Baghdad, rejecting a U.S. judge's ...