US contractor quits Iraq as violence threatens elections
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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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At least 21 people, including 17 Iraqis working for the US military, were killed Sunday as a senior UN official warned that next month&#39;s crucial elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.
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Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it is pulling out of Iraq because of escalating violence in the country and danger to its staff.
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U.S. contractor Contrack International  has pulled out of a $325 million Iraqi transportation project  because of violence, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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U.S. officials in Baghdad fear that violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites in some areas will erupt into "ethnic cleansing" with the departure of U.S. forces, a government watchdog said on Thursday.
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Future of private contractors in doubt as US apologises over recent Baghdad killings.
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WASHINGTON - The State Department's security chief was forced to resign yesterday after a critical review found his office had failed to adequately supervise private contractors protecting US diplomats in Iraq.
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Iraq&#39;s official Sunni Muslim political party has threatened to quit the US-backed government unless a full-scale military assault on the rebel-held city of Fallujah is halted.
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WASHINGTON - The top US military commander for Iraq said today he expected flawed elections and much violence ahead of the voting scheduled for January.
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A US soldier will leave Iraq under special dispensation after losing both of his brothers in fighting there.
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The tougher approach by US forces is intended to stabilize the country before elections, but offensives bring new risks. For the first time in the Iraq war, according to military officials, US aircraft last week directly bombed a mosque.
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BAGHDAD - American officials scrambled to head off a potential crisis yesterday after irate Iraqi authorities canceled the license of controversial US security company Blackwater USA, whose guards were accused of shooting to death eight civilians while guarding a US State Department motorcade.
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A slain American contractor feared for his life after turning whistleblower
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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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WASHINGTON -- The State Department's security chief resigned on Wednesday in the wake of last month's deadly Blackwater USA shooting incident in Baghdad and growing questions about the use of private contractors to protect diplomats in Iraq.
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The top US commander in Iraq has expressed concern about the ability of Iraqi forces to cope with security in the run-up to elections next month.
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The State Department's security chief was forced to resign yesterday after a critical review found that his office had failed to adequately supervise private contractors protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq.