The Iraqi government said it will file criminal charges against employees of security firm Blackwater USA who were involved a gun battle in Baghdad in which civilians were killed, an Iraqi Interior ...

By Mathew Cohen Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa announced on March 11 that he had formed a “strategic alliance” with US ...

Founder of private military company Blackwater Erik D. Prince argued that private companies should take the lead in ...

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has announced a “strategic alliance” to fight organized crime with Erik Prince, the founder ...

The group, which includes some former immigration officials, is led by Prince, who has close ties to Trump, and Bill Mathews, the former chief operating officer of Blackwater, the military contractor ...

Along with Prince, other key members of the group hail from the upper echelons of Blackwater, a private military contractor that provided security services for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Prince notably obtained defense contracts while presiding over operations by Blackwater, a private military firm that trained members of the armed forces who were based in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan was a big market for Blackwater, and Prince hoped he could expand his business on this trip. ... The 2½-hour ...

Blackwater, a private mercenary company also headquartered in North Carolina, was hired to send U.S. mercenaries to both Afghanistan and Iraq shortly after the U.S. invasions. Between 2001 and ...