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 ...

There was no immediate response from the Iraqi government. Slatten, Slough, Liberty and Heard were among 19 Blackwater private security contractors assigned to guard a convoy of four heavily ...

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 ...