MIDDLEBURG, Va. — A cheery fire warmed the glass-walled conservatory of the Goodstone Inn in Virginia’s horse country, as diners sampled the featured wine and meats on the menu of the evening’s farm ...

President Donald Trump's decision to pardon four Blackwater private security contractors convicted of a massacre in Baghdad has been met with fury by the victims' families in Iraq. "How are these ...

The Central Intelligence Agency hired the private security firm Blackwater USA in 2004 to work on a covert program aimed at targeting and potentially killing top al Qaeda leaders, according to a ...

The head of Blackwater USA, the private security firm implicated in a series of deadly firefights in Iraq, defended his employees' actions before a Congressional committee Tuesday, saying his firm had ...

The private security contractor Blackwater said on Oct. 13 that it welcomed the FBI’s investigation of its activities in Iraq, and vowed to punish any employees that were implicated in wrongdoing.

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NEW YORK — The founder of the private security firm Blackwater Inc. is writing a memoir. Erik Prince has a deal with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The publisher announced Monday that ...

The Iraqi Cabinet said Tuesday it would review the status of all foreign security companies following the alleged killing of eight civilians by security firm Blackwater USA. Two experts consider the ...

In Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books, $26.95, 452 pp.), journalist Jeremy Scahill explores how a Michigan Republican founded and grew a private security ...

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