Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amid reports that US President Donald Trump has suggested deploying American private military companies to Ukraine as part of ...

I have always thought mercenaries, such as the Hessians from our Revolutionary War, to be soldiers without honor who would do battle only if paid to do so. They would not kill for love of country, but ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The world watched as the beaten and burned bodies of four American contractors from a private military company, then known as Blackwater, ...

The Haitian government has signed a contract with Mr. Prince, the private military contractor who founded Blackwater, a company notorious for a civilian massacre in Iraq. By David C. Adams, Frances ...

Is there a difference between an “enemy combatant” and a privateer Blackwater contract player with state-of-the-art weaponry? One could foresee these buccaneers arrested by Iraqi authorities and held ...

(WASHINGTON) — Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who is facing scrutiny in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, is reprising his role as America’s ...

LIMA, Peru—Edwin Ajahuana, a mine owner from high in the Andes, spent 23 hours traveling by road to meet the mercenary he hoped could protect his workers and assets. At the bougainvillea-adorned ...

Blackwater, hired by the State Department to guard U.S. diplomats, says its guards were responding to a car bombing and were ambushed by insurgents. The shooting strained relations between the U.S.