The financier with a long history of interests in military contracting is closing in on a top job at the Pentagon.

There have been calls for a bigger role for private companies in the Afghan war. Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a private security firm, believes contractors are key to ending the long ...

A federal judge resentenced three former Blackwater security contractors Thursday to more than a decade in prison for their role in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad in which dozens of unarmed Iraqis were ...

The 2007 killings triggered a debate over the role of defence contractors in warfare A US appeals court has overturned a murder conviction for a former Blackwater security guard over the killing ...