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Judge Richardo M. Urbina of the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday dismissed voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges against the five Blackwater guards indicted for their involvement in the...

United States of America v. Slough, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, December 31, 2009 [dismissing voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges against five Blackwater guards indicted for involvement in the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians in...

A US military court at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait convicted Sergeant Jarret Taylor of abusing fellow troops and making a false official statement on Friday. Taylor's rank was reduced to private, he was sentenced to six...

Federal prosecutors from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicated Friday that they will drop manslaughter charges against a Blackwater Worldwide security guard who had been involved in the September 2007 shooting incident in...

JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Maffai of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies says that to prevent governments from hiring private military contractors to dodge their international human rights obligations, lawmakers in countries such as the US must ensure that...

The security company known formerly as Blackwater Worldwide and its former CEO and founder Erik Prince illegally smuggled weapons into Iraq, indiscriminately killed Iraqi civilians, and committed a number of other crimes, according to...

Jernej Letnar ÄŒerniÄ : "The US government published in February 2009 its decision that it will not renew its contract with the private security corporation formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide....

A US military contractor who pleaded guilty in February to voluntary manslaughter for the 2008 shooting of an Afghan detainee was sentenced in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ...

The security company known formerly as Blackwater Worldwide on Thursday concluded its operations in Baghdad as its contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq ended. A spokesperson from the US Embassy in Iraq [official...

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday rejected two motions challenging the court's ability to hear the case filed on behalf of five indicted Blackwater USA [corporate website; JURIST news...