Academi security firm, formerly known as Xe Services, before that Blackwater

The Ethiopian lobby and certain influential elements within US foreign policy-making circles continue to label Eritrea as a Marxist rogue state that undermines regional institutions such as IGAD and international ones like the UN Security Council; a closed society that espouses a deep rooted hatred towards ...

... UAE officials at the meeting in Seychelles didn't introduce Prince and Russian executive Kirill Dmitriev, as Prince had stated. Prince, who founded the private security company formerly known as Blackwater, today known as Academi, had testified before the House Intelligence Committee that the meeting ...

WASHINGTON - Erik Prince heeft vlak voor de inauguratie van Donald Trump contact proberen te leggen tussen de aanstaande president en het Kremlin. De oprichter van het beruchte huurlingenleger Blackwater (inmiddels omgedoopt tot Academi) en de broer van de 'Nederlandse' onderwijsminister Betsy DeVos zou ...

Prince, the founder of Academi, the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater, initially described the meeting as an impromptu ... Email the Roundup Team noteworthy law and security-related articles to include, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook for additional commentary on these issues.

During the transition, Prince met with members of Trump's incoming national security team and boasted to friends about his influence in the Trump orbit, ... replacing some US troops with private military contractors -- like the fighters employed by his former company, Blackwater, now known as Academi.

A former intern for Rohrabacher, Prince revolutionized mercenary warfare through his private security contract firm Blackwater, which rebranded as Academi in 2011. Both figures are under intense scrutiny for their ties to Moscow and have been called before intelligence committees investigating collusion ...

Prince is the founder of Blackwater, a private military company whose members murdered 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007. The firm now operates under the name Academi, and its mercenaries are reported to be fighting with UAE forces against Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Blackwater founder was not an ...

Prince and Rohrabacher have been friends for decades. The Blackwater founder worked as an intern for the California Republican in 1990. Rohrabacher also defended Prince when Blackwater, today known as Academi, came under fire after a group of its employees opened fire on Iraqi civilians in 2007, ...

Mr. Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who advises Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the effective ruler of the Emirates, also ... close later to several advisers in the Trump White House, had once worked as a consultant to Blackwater, a private security firm now known as Academi.

The owner of the Daily Mirror announced a sharp drop in revenues for 2017 yesterday amid what it called a “difficult trading environment”. Trinity Mirror, which plans to change its name to Reach after its acquisition of the Express and Star newspapers, also revealed that Simon Fox, its chief executive, ...

Since 2013, other similar contracts were awarded; two contracts for a “Special Security Advisor” went to ADGA Group Consultants Inc. for over ... shows DND spending over a million dollars on the services of disgraced military contractor Academi, formerly known as Blackwater founded by Erik Prince.

He was earlier the Vice President for Special Projects at the Olive Group, a private mercenary organization that has since merged with Blackwater-Academi into forming the present Constellis Holdings. In 2014, Mesurier created his own company, May Day Rescue using funding from US and UK to expand ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government dramatically increased spending on services from the notorious company formerly known as Blackwater, ... from the Department of National Defence (DND), in the 2016-2017 fiscal year the government purchased two million dollars in services from Academi, the ...

That was once the name of an American security firm now known as Academi. It was founded by former U.S. navy SEAL Erik Prince. ... page refers to a 2012 CBC news story stating the Canadian Forces spent $2.4 million in 2011 to train at a facility operated by Xe Services, an earlier name for Blackwater.

Russian sources told Bloomberg more than 200 mercenaries were killed, while a U.S. official said 100 died and another 200 to 300 were injured. The mercenaries involved reportedly belonged to Wagner, the Russian counterpart to American private security force Academi — once known as Blackwater. “Coalition officials ...

The United Nations Mercenary Convention, signed in 2001, defines and places limits on what constitutes mercenaries. Although ... After re-branding Blackwater as Xe, then selling it in order to escape its universally bad reputation, company founder Erik Prince went on to create Academi (Blackwater 3.0).

The scariest of those is Erik Prince, CEO of the notorious "private contractor" company Academi -- formerly known as Blackwater -- who is busily pitching one crackpot ... His history during the Iraq War as the head of Blackwater, which was essentially an unaccountable mercenary army, made him infamous.

The founder of Blackwater – a private military firm later known as Xe Services and now known as Academi – Prince is set to appear Thursday before the committee behind closed doors. The appearance was described by the committee as "open in a closed space," indicating that a transcript will likely be ...

Less well-known is that one of the principal investors is Erik Prince, the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater (now Academi), according to a confidential briefing obtained by Foreign Policy. Prince's investment in Wickr is by no means secret, but it is obscure. When asked about his ...

The business — and the show — has its roots in the couple's military backgrounds. Ashley Williams, 32, is a former soldier, and Andy Williams, 36, served in the Marine Corps. After getting out of the military in 2004, he worked in Iraq for the private security firm Blackwater, now called Academi, and bought ...

In this November 11, 2011, file photo Yevgeny Prigozhin (left) assists then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a dinner outside Moscow. Prigozhin, also known as "Putin's chef," is among thirteen Russians indicted in connection with US special prosecutor Robert S. Mueller's investigation of ...

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater USA, the private security company now known as Academi, at one point hired Mr. Nader to help the company generate business deals in Iraq. In a 2010 deposition that Mr. Prince gave as part of a lawsuit against the company, Mr. Prince described Mr. Nader as a ...

From the millions of tax dollars being spent on special forces training from the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater, to protesters outmanoeuvring private guards at pipeline hearings in Montreal, VICE News has spent the week investigating the rise of Canada's private security sector.