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 ...

In just the week since Jeremy Scahill’s appearance on THE JOURNAL, there have been many developments in the Blackwater story: In front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Secretary ...

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 ...

A nation that goes to war on principle may not realize it will then have to hire private soldiers to keep the peace. The work of the four American civilians slaughtered in Fallujah last week was so ...

Jerry Zovko was muscle for hire, and he plied his trade, private security, in a place that for Americans is perhaps the most dangerous in the world. Zovko joined the Army in 1992, serving in the 82nd ...

A North Carolina-based security firm, criticized Monday by the Iraqi government, defended its employees' actions in a weekend firefight that left eight people dead. Iraq's Interior Ministry said it ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Families of four slain security contractors whose bodies were burned and dragged through the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, sued the workers' former company Wednesday. The families ...

WASHINGTON >> The Navy’s next amphibious assault ship will be named after the city of Fallujah, which saw some of the bloodiest battles in the Iraq war when U.S. Marines fought al-Qaida extremists in ...

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 successor. Family ...