More than 1,000 private contractors have been killed in Iraq and 13,000 wounded. Among them: a Kellogg Brown & Root convoy caught in what became known as the Good Friday massacre. The 2004 attack is ...

U.S. military forces may be out of Iraq, but the unsung and unrecognized part of America’s modern military establishment is still serving and sacrificing — the role played by private military and ...

A federal appeals court in Virginia is trying to decide whether a company that worked alongside soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq should be held liable for treatment detainees experienced ...

In an unusual closed session, a federal appeals court will hear arguments Wednesday in three cases alleging KBR knowingly sent civilian contractors along a dangerous route in Iraq, where they suffered ...

There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers — and a large percentage of them are private security guards equipped with automatic weapons, body armor, ...

The list of alleged contractor misdeeds in Iraq has grown long in the past 3 1/2 years. Yet when it comes to holding companies accountable, the charges seldom stick. Critics say that because of legal ...

In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians working under contract to the Pentagon have been killed and more than 3,300 hurt doing jobs normally handled by the U.S. military, ...

There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers -- and a large percentage of them are private security guards equipped with automatic weapons, helicopters and ...

WASHINGTON - The United States has assembled an imposing industrial army in Iraq larger than its uniformed fighting force and responsible for such a broad swath of responsibilities the military might ...

HOUSTON — The world’s biggest oil field contractors are building bases in the deserts of Iraq in a bet they’ll profit as the country strives to increase crude oil output to rival Saudi Arabia.

Federal prosecutors yesterday described a blaze of gunfire and grenade explosions unleashed by six Blackwater Worldwide security guards in a busy Baghdad square last year, calling it an "unprovoked ...