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WASHINGTON — The State Department said Friday it will not renew Blackwater Worldwide’s contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May. “The department notified Blackwater in ...

Blackwater’s killing of at least nine civilians in downtown Baghdad Sunday leaves the Bush Administration with a hard choice. Either leave an intolerable status quo in place, and stand by a 2004 ...

WASHINGTON — An internal State Department report says Blackwater Worldwide may lose its license to work in Iraq and recommends the agency prepare alternative ways to protect its diplomats there. The ...

U.S. officials scrambled to head off a potential crisis Monday after irate Iraqi authorities canceled the license of controversial U.S. security company Blackwater USA, whose guards are accused of ...

BAGHDAD -- U.S. and Iraqi officials are negotiating Baghdad's demand that security company Blackwater USA be expelled from the country within six months, and American diplomats appear to be working on ...

Iraq’s cabinet met Tuesday for roughly one hour and discussed the role of security companies in the wake of a violent incident in Baghdad Sunday when a U.S. convoy protected by Blackwater contractors ...

WASHINGTON -- Blackwater Worldwide, the security contractor blamed by an angry Iraqi government for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians, is not expected to face criminal charges -- all but ensuring ...

Dec. 12, 2011 — -- The private security firm once known as Blackwater, which was forced out of Iraq after a shooting incident in which 17 civilians died, has changed its name for the second time ...

MOYOCK, N.C. -- Blackwater Worldwide, denied an operating license in Iraq because of lingering outrage over a deadly shooting spree in Baghdad, promised Thursday to leave the country where it guards ...

Prime minister wants U.S. security firm out of country earlier than his original six-month deadline. BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has pressed U.S. Embassy officials in recent meetings to ...