This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. And this... UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: We had to check it out. MARTIN: This past week, four military contractors with the firm Blackwater were ...

We’ve fought in Afghanistan for 16 years now. Are we making progress? After 9/11, we invaded, overthrew the Taliban, killed Osama Bin Laden and — stayed. Afghanistan is now America’s longest war, ever ...

Immigrants' rights activists have slammed a newly revealed proposal by private military contractors to assist the Trump administration's mass deportations.

Private military contractors (PMCs) have long operated in the shadows of war zones—training soldiers, guarding convoys, and sometimes engaging in combat. While many provide logistical or security ...

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, ...

This conclusion sharply contradicts the findings of a congressional investigation led by House Democrats and a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of the four slain guards. Blackwater is cast ...

On a scorching September 2007 Baghdad afternoon, a 19-man convoy of four armored Blackwater trucks rolled into Nisour Square, one of the city’s most congested and volatile intersections. What happened ...

Private military executive Erik Prince, a close ally of President Donald Trump, plans to deploy his company’s private forces in Haiti for a decade, Reuters reported Thursday. Prince’s company, Vectus ...