SAN FRANCISCO -- Moves by the U.S. military to relinquish responsibility to Iraq's security forces raise big questions over who will safeguard the shattered country's reconstruction in what is the ...

It costs the U.S. government a lot more to hire contract employees as security guards in Iraq than to use American troops. It comes down to the simple business equation of every transaction requiring ...

Private security contractors such as Blackwater USA are under scrutiny for their role in Iraq. The State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security lacks the manpower to protect its officials so it ...

NPR's Michele Norris speaks to Dana Priest, intelligence reporter for The Washington Post, about the role of private security firms working in Iraq. Four employees of Blackwater Security Consulting ...

WASHINGTON - The United States risks having "little to show for billions" of dollars spent on Iraqi reconstruction because of rising security costs and mismanagement, a new report said Sunday. Rapidly ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Security forces confiscated hundreds of rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition and other military gear in a crackdown on private security contractors in Iraq, officials said on ...

JOHNSTON, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Wednesday called for stepping up oversight of private security firms in Iraq and blamed the Bush administration for not initially ...

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WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - On a rooftop terrace blocks from the White House, a collection of former soldiers and intelligence officers, executives and contractors drink to the international ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The Commission on Wartime Contracting on Monday questioned the State Department's ability to take over duties of U.S. military personnel in Iraq when the troops leave the country by ...

BAGHDAD -- Cruising toward Baghdad in the belly of a Spanish turboprop plane with a dozen other private security contractors from Blackwater USA, Rich, a 43-year-old former Navy commando, squinted out ...