Violence Forces U.S. Contractor to Leave Iraq
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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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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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Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
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A U.S. retailer has been deluged with angry messages since an employee sent an e-mail to an American soldier in Iraq saying "if you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq."
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A translator employed by San Diego&#39;s Titan Corp. was beheaded in Iraq yesterday by insurgents who also beheaded a Turkish contractor working at a US air base.
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A slain American contractor feared for his life after turning whistleblower
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The Pentagon is to end the contract Halliburton has to service US troops in Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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The United States on Tuesday suspended all land travel by U.S. diplomats and other civilian officials in Iraq outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, amid mounting public outrage over the alleged killing of civilians by the U.S. Embassy's security provider Blackwater USA.
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Armed gunmen have abducted a Lebanese-American contractor from his Baghdad home, CNN reported Wednesday. The contractor, who reportedly works for the US Army in the Green Zone
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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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The operation by U.S. and Iraqi troops may have been aimed at a cleric said to have incited insurgent violence.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A contractor who left Charlotte to work in Iraq is feared to be in the hands of insurgents. Dean Sadek lived on Hanna Court near Sharon Amity Road in east Charlotte before he moved overseas
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 -- American soldiers are leaving their sprawling fortress-cities and establishing many small outposts in the capital's most violent neighborhoods in a major tactical shift under the two-week-old Baghdad security plan.
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Rising violence and associated security costs have prompted a U.S. company to pull out of a &#36;325 million contract to rebuild transportation infrastructure in Iraq, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. military is delaying the   departure of thousands of soldiers from Iraq while speeding the   arrival of thousands more as a way to keep more troops on the   ground to handle unrelenting violence, U.S. officials said on   Monday.
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Iraq pledged on Monday to punish foreign security contractors involved in an incident in western Baghdad in which 11 people were killed.
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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.