This conclusion sharply contradicts the findings of a congressional investigation led by House Democrats and a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of the four slain guards. Blackwater is cast ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Days after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, a federal appeals court ended a lawsuit over an episode that produced one of the more disturbing images of the war: the grisly killings ...

The private security firm Blackwater USA brushed aside warnings from another security firm and focused on cost, not safety, before it sent its personnel to escort trucks to Fallujah in 2004, resulting ...

“Fallujah was—and remains—a symbol of US war crimes during its occupation of Iraq,” Jarrar tells TRNN. “The message sent ...

Relatives of four American contract workers who were brutally killed in Iraq testify in Congress that the men, hired to provide security, were given inadequate armor and weapons to do their jobs. The ...

A month after voters last year gave Democrats the control that would elevate Nancy Pelosi to speaker of the House, Pelosi received a letter from a trial lawyer in Santa Ana, Calif., named Daniel J.

An administrator for the estates of Stephen Helvenston, Mike Teague, Jerko Zovko and Wesley Batalona sued Blackwater in 2005 after the security contractors were killed by Iraqi insurgents while ...

FALLUJAH, IRAQ — In 2004 and 2005, the Iraqi city of Fallujah was a killing field. Al Qaeda dominated the streets. Insurgent snipers sought to pick off U.S. Marines on patrol. Some of the fiercest ...

RALEIGH, N.C. AP - The families of four Blackwater private security guards whose killing in Fallujah marked a turning point of the Iraq war are ending their lawsuit against the company's corporate ...