LIMA, Peru—Edwin Ajahuana, a mine owner from high in the Andes, spent 23 hours traveling by road to meet the mercenary he hoped could protect his workers and assets. At the bougainvillea-adorned ...

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater who used an auto parts inheritance to build the security firm into one of the world's most respected — and reviled — defense companies in the world, said today ...

The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a ...

Erik Prince, the Michigan-born former CEO of the controversial military contractor Blackwater, is pitching a sweeping plan to the Trump administration that would rely on private security forces and ...

Erik Prince became well known for Blackwater Worldwide, the private security firm that killed 17 civilians in Baghdad during the Iraq War. He's just one of the businessmen recruited by President Trump ...

With mercenaries increasingly seen as a go-to solution for some of the world's most devilish security problems, Blackwater founder and Donald Trump donor Erik Prince is reported to be pitching his ...

Erik Prince is the just-resigned CEO of Blackwater, a private military firm with $1 billion in contracts--from guarding Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Afghanistan to running drone strike ...

Raises Serious Dilemma for CIA, Special Forces The Nation's Jeremy Scahill writes, "The most interesting aspect of this story is what will happen to Blackwater's clandestine/covert work for the CIA ...