Triple Canopy, a Herndon, Virginia-based company, picks up the expiring contract of the security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, which changed its name to XE a few mo ...

Iraq’s cabinet met Tuesday for roughly one hour and discussed the role of security companies in the wake of a violent incident in Baghdad Sunday when a U.S. convoy protected by Blackwater contractors ...

Iraqi witnesses against Blackwater guards were promised justice after a mass killing in Baghdad in 2007. ‘Today,’ one said, the bullets still in his leg, ‘they proved to me it was just theater.’ By ...

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch emerged from the congressional hearing concerning the private security firm Blackwater USA on Oct. 2 with a clear opinion — the controversial company needs to leave Iraq ...

Blackwater, the controversial private security company used extensively by the U.S. in Iraq, may have paid $1 million in bribes to Iraqi officials in late 2007, The New York Times reports. The bribes ...

The chairman of Blackwater USA, the security contractor under scrutiny for its actions in Iraq, defended his company today against what he called "baseless allegations of wrongdoing" and accused ...