The $893 billion defense policy bill that passed the House of Representatives last week would grant the Department of Defense ...

And the companies are not required to report violent incidents involving their employees. Security guards now constitute nearly 50 percent of all private contractors in Iraq. The wartime numbers of ...

Gulf states are increasingly looking to use investment deals to cement trade ties and counter Iranian influence in countries ...

WASHINGTON -- All State Department security convoys in Iraq will now fall under military control, the latest step taken by government officials to bring Blackwater Worldwide and other armed ...

Iraq’s Ministry of Communications has signed a contract with global telecom company Nokia to establish the country’s first ...

Promote manufacturing: IFC partnered with Nomu Holding, a subsidiary of Iraq’s Al-Maysarah Group and Saudi-based Al Muhaidib ...

Contractor fraud and waste in Afghanistan and Iraq has run rampant, costing U.S. taxpayers something between $31 billion and $60 billion, according to the congressionally created Commission on Wartime ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, has announced $1 billion in new investments and ...

Those who support using private military and security contractors often claim that a major reason for doing so is that it is more cost-effective than using regular military forces. While there hasn’t ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an ...