WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Blackwater Worldwide, the security contractor that protects American diplomats in Baghdad, may be banned by Iraq next year, the U.S. State Department warns.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. prosecutors and defense attorneys sparred Monday over where five indicted Blackwater Worldwide guards would face trial.
WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he wants details on the military's use of private contracting firms such as Blackwater for training.
BAGHDAD, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. government countered Iraqi claims that employees with Blackwater USA fired “without any provocation” on Iraqi guards, killing three.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The chief of the private Blackwater security firm on contract in Iraq said employees being investigated in Baghdad will never enter the Iraqi legal system.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Blackwater USA guards fired upon Iraqi civilians as they fled from a Baghdad square, a report compiled by the first U.S. solders who arrived at the scene said.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The Iraqi government wants Blackwater USA to pay $8 million to each of the 17 families whose relatives were shot to death in Baghdad last month.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Iraqi officials said guards from Blackwater USA were in no way provoked into opening fire on a crowd of civilians and want the company prosecuted.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. military reports appear to support the Iraqi government's contention that private Blackwater USA security guards wantonly opened fire on civilians.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department asked the FBI for help in the department's probe into the Sept. 16 shooting incident in Iraq involving private security personnel.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The soundness of sending private security firms such as Blackwater was a key point for a U.S. congressional panel probing Blackwater's presence in Iraq.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Blackwater guards faced bedlam during a shooting incident in Baghdad in which at least eight civilians died, said an initial U.S. Embassy report.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Civilian traffic in and out of Baghdad's "safe zone" was halted by U.S. officials in the wake of the shooting deaths of civilians by a private security firm.
