“In Iraq,” Mohammed Hafedh Abdulrazzaq Kinani testified at the sentencing hearing for four Blackwater contractors in DC federal court on Monday, “Blackwater was perceived as so powerful that ...

Blackwater has been fired by the State Department from its job protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq. Executives of the controversial U.S. security company were notified today by the State Department ...

A U.S. State Department review of private security guards for diplomats in Iraq is unlikely to recommend firing Blackwater USA over the deaths of 17 Iraqis last month, but the company probably is ...

On January 28, the Iraqi government announced that it was not issuing Blackwater a license to operate in Iraq, saying the company needed to leave once private security companies were officially ...

Blackwater Worldwide, which guards American diplomats in Iraq, said Thursday it would be prepared to leave that country within 72 hours after Iraqi officials denied the North Carolina-based ...

A State Department investigator warned officials in 2007 that Blackwater security contractors in Iraq "saw themselves as above the law,'' yet their investigation of the company's activities was ...

An extensive evidence file assembled by the Iraqi National Police after the controversial Blackwater shooting suggests that the private contractors opened fire unprovoked from the ground and the sky.

Reporting from Baghdad — Iraq has given hundreds of guards linked to the private security company formerly known as Blackwater a week to leave the country or face arrest, Interior Ministry ...

But as he sits behind bars waiting for prosecutors to decide his fate, the 33-year-old former Blackwater security guard, convicted of initiating a mass shooting against unarmed Iraqi civilians ...

An Iraqi man rides a bicycle passed the remains of a car after Blackwater guards opened fire in a Baghdad square in September 2007. (Ali Youssef/AFP/Getty Images) ...