Iraq pulls security firm contract
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Iraq cancels the licence of US private security firm Blackwater after eight civilians died in a shootout.
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A Turkish construction company announced today that it was halting operations in neighbouring Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.
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The Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced Tuesday that Iraq will close its borders with Syria and Iran and ordered the return of unlawfully seized homes, as part of the drive to end the violence that has threatened to divide the capital along sectarian lines.
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The U.S. military confirmed yesterday that it awarded the largest security contract in Iraq to a private British firm, Aegis Defence Services, in a deal worth up to $475 million over two years.
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Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , beset by controversy over its work in Iraq, plans to shed its KBR engineering and construction unit if the oilfield services company&#39;s
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BUDAPEST, Dec 23  Hungary has pulled out the last of its 300-strong military contingent from Iraq after parliament refused to extend the transport unit's mission beyond 2004, a Defence Ministry ...
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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has hastily reversed a decision to partially withhold payments to Halliburton, the biggest US contractor in Iraq.
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A Kuwaiti company bows to demands of kidnappers in Iraq holding seven of its employees, saying it will halt operations there.
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Nigeria said on Monday that it had banned the awarding of government contracts to Halliburton, the oil services company, as a result of the theft of two radioactive devices from its Nigerian subsidiary.
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An international construction company has pulled out of its contract to rebuild Iraq's transportation systems, deciding it was too dangerous to stay, a spokesman for the U.S.-led reconstruction effort said Wednesday.
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Rising violence and associated security  costs have prompted a U.S. company to pull out of a $325  million contract to rebuild transportation infrastructure in  Iraq, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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A federal judge yesterday ordered the military to temporarily refrain from awarding the largest security contract in Iraq. The order followed an unusual series of events set off when a U.S. Army veteran filed a protest against the government practice of hiring what he calls mercenaries, according to...
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The Pentagon is to withhold a proportion of payments to US firm Halliburton which supplies meals to US troops in Iraq.
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The U.S. Army has agreed to reconsider the bids of companies that were eliminated from the competition to win the largest private security contract in Iraq, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni Arab political faction, yesterday announced its withdrawal from legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 30, saying its demands to delay the vote
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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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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.