Iraq revokes security contractor license after shootout
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Iraq announced on Monday it had withdrawn the license of a U.S. security firm and would prosecute employees it said were involved in a Baghdad shooting in which 11 people were killed.
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An international construction company has pulled out of its contract to rebuild Iraq&#39;s transportation systems, deciding it was too dangerous
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Iraqi and British forces in southern Iraq closed border crossings with Iran on Thursday in an attempt to choke off smuggling networks that Washington says are used to supply militant groups.
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, setting up more checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys for weapons.
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The Interior Ministry said Monday that it was pulling the license of an American security firm allegedly involved in the fatal shooting of civilians during an attack on a U.S. State Department motorcade in Baghdad
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday suspended all ground travel for its diplomats across Iraq following a deadly shootout over the weekend involving its private security guards from Blackwater USA.
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Nigeria said on Monday it had banned the awarding of government contracts to Halliburton, the world&#39;s second-largest oil services firm, following the theft of two radioactive devices from its Nigerian subsidiary.
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Contrack International Inc., an Arlington engineering and construction company, became the first major U.S. firm to withdraw from a reconstruction contract in Iraq because the deteriorating security environment had made working there too costly.
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Iraq's government approves a draft law revoking private security contractors' immunity from prosecution.
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BAGHDAD - An Iraqi official conceded yesterday that expelling a private US company accused in the deaths of at least 11 Iraqis would leave a "security vacuum" and said the two countries would look at ways to better regulate companies that protect Western personnel and facilities in Iraq.
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A leading American contractor has pulled out of a major Iraqi reconstruction project, the latest sign of how the ever-increasing violence in Iraq threatens to overwhelm America&#39;s
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Iraq says it will review the status of all security firms in the country after a deadly gunfight involving a US firm.
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US security firm Blackwater resumes work in Baghdad days after a shootout which killed 11 Iraqis.
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Gunmen attacked a convoy of civilian trucks Friday, killing one guard, and a cache of arms was seized in a Baghdad mosque, officials said. Security forces detained 77 people across Iraq in a crackdown on sectarian and political extremists.
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A US Marine caught on film apparently shooting dead a severely wounded and unarmed Iraqi insurgent at point-blank range has been removed from active duty and was last night being questioned by military criminal investigators, the Pentagon said yesterday.
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Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers launched a major security crackdown in the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday, searching homes for weapons after all residents were ordered off the streets.