A former Blackwater contractor shares a firsthand account of one of the most intense operations of his career, describing how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's decision on Tuesday to pardon four former Blackwater security guards – convicted in a 2007 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Evan Liberty was reading in the top bunk of his cell one evening late last month when a prison supervisor delivered news he had hoped for. “He says, ‘Are you ready for this?'" ...

A former contractor reveals the terrifying reality of operating in Iraq during the bloodiest years of the war, where Blackwater teams and security convoys were driving straight into coordinated ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's pardon of four American men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 violated U.S. obligations under international law, U.N. human rights ...

Private contractors should have to follow military rules to avoid getting lost in that fog. Unfortunately, Blackwater and similar contractors truly are above the law. The U.S. government exempted its ...

The United Nations Human Rights Office Wednesday criticized President Trump for pardoning former Blackwater contractors who were jailed in the US for killing 14 Iraqi civilians. On Tuesday, Trump ...

“Cheaper than water.” This is how Iraqis commented on the value of their lives after they learned that US President Donald Trump had pardoned the four Blackwater security contractors who had ...

(Adds FBI team asked to go to Iraq, paragraph 4) By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - U.S. security contractor Blackwater was involved in at least 195 shooting incidents in Iraq since 2005, ...