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Common Dreams
April 17, 2018
Under Prince's leadership, the American contractors who worked in Iraq were at the center of some of the war's most notorious incidents, with four ... crippling consequences to the recycling of failed strategies in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan over and over and over and over... https://t.co/8RdsUmJ7ZY via @ ...
JDJournal.com
April 17, 2018
“The massive vehicles have V-shaped hulls designed to deflect IEDs—a life-saving technological innovation for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because troops ride in these vehicles in dangerous conflict zones, they get hit—and need repairs.” A research scholar told the Daily Beast that it is common for ...
The Intercept
April 15, 2018
Fisher, who has long worked on Ali's case, estimates the number of these local staff is in the “tens of thousands” — one contractor alone had hired out 8,000 Iraqi interpreters by 2009. A congressional budget report in 2008 estimated that 15,000 Iraqis also worked as private security contractors for U.S. ...
Al-Monitor
April 14, 2018
The US military is using more than 5,500 contractors in the campaign to defeat the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon revealed in a quarterly report this week that acknowledges the use of contractors in the Syrian war zone for the first time. The latest figures from US Central Command indicate ...
WTOP
April 2, 2018
Nick had gone to Iraq as a telecommunications contractor to repair radio towers following the United States' invasion in 2003 — a military move Nick supported and Michael, an anti-war protester since Vietnam, did not. During both of his campaigns following Nick's death — the one for Congress and the one ...
The National Interest Online
March 25, 2018
There is much in the current news about Russian security contractors dying in Syria. It must be remembered that the Russian contractors were preceded by American security contractors, who came to total more than twenty-five thousand in Iraq in 2009. The difference between the two is that there are ...
Foreign Policy In Focus
March 21, 2018
As of 2015, when the Costs of War project made its latest tallies, up to 165,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a direct consequence of U.S. war, plus around 8,000 U.S. soldiers and military contractors in Iraq. Those numbers have only continued to rise. Up to 6,000 civilians were killed by U.S.-led strikes in Iraq ...
Brooklyn Daily
March 20, 2018
A family of Iraqi refugees who fled Baghdad amid death threats from terrorists targeting the father's work supporting the American army have built a new ... got married — when Sano started receiving death threats while he was working for the U.S. Army as a technology contractor at a base called Camp Taji.
The Diplomat
March 20, 2018
Most of the PSC contractors are former military officers and the CEOs are former officials from the PLA or PAP. This situation creates several scenarios related to the perception of a possible Chinese hidden agenda and indirect power projection. The killing of innocent civilians by U.S. contractors in Iraq ...
Business Insider
March 20, 2018
Joshua Wall from Golf Company 2nd Battalion 7th Marines set up security during a patrol on August 16, 2005 in Fallujah, Iraq. Golf Company is tasked with .... accidentally killing civilians. One of the most egregious incidents came in 2007 when Blackwater contractors killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square in Baghdad.
Tehran Times
March 19, 2018
Recently Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation (known as Sinopec) which is the main contractor in developing Iran's Yadavaran oilfield (shared with Iraq in Iran's southwestern region of Karoun) has claimed that an Iranian company caused them several hundred millions ...
Aljazeera.com
March 17, 2018
A Taliban suicide car bomber has detonated explosives near to a compound for foreign security contractors in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials said. ... The Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group have launched a series of deadly attacks across the country, ...
Breaking Defense
March 15, 2018
Chris Thobaben, who had the idea to repurpose the drones for logistics after seeing too many comrades killed or wounded on supply runs in Iraq. ... All day long here, racking up more than 400 sorties, Marines and contractors are tapping tablets to summon mini-drones from a central “Hive” to drop empty ...
Al-Monitor
March 10, 2018
In addition, the budget did not include allocations to the Iraqi Kurdistan peshmerga or Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), which some critics said was ... paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, tweeted, “The fact that PMU fighters are still treated as contractors and not as equals to security service officers, ...
Business Insurance
March 9, 2018
In 2010, David Sickle and Matthew Elliott were working in Baghdad, Iraq, for Falls Church, Virginia-based Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions L.L.C. when Mr. Elliott, who assisted with a military base's canine unit, injured his back while stacking sandbags, according to documents filed in David Sickle and ...
ReliefWeb
March 8, 2018
Iraq's Tank Fleet In Trouble as Contractors Pull Out – U.S.-based defense contractor General Dynamics, responsible for maintaining Iraq's fleet of U.S.-made M1 Abrams tanks, has pulled most of its employees out of Iraq at the request of the U.S. government. According to an employee, the U.S. government ...
Rudaw
March 4, 2018
... Iraq is not able to maintain its fleet of US-made tanks after foreign contractors have left and Baghdad has not adhered to US “end-use requirements.” “We were informed that the [U.S. government] shut the program down until such time [as] the few M1s are returned to us,” Foreign Policy quoted a contractor ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 2, 2018
Then in late December 2017, most of the General Dynamics contractors abruptly left Iraq. “We were informed that the [U.S. government] shut the program down until such time [as] the few M1s are returned to us,” one contractor told Foreign Policy on the condition we not print their name, as they're not ...
Tribune-Review
February 20, 2018
... hopes for veterans and contractors exposed to smoke from burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. As first reported by Fox News, the judge ruled that Kellogg Brown and Root and its insurer, AIG, are responsible for covering the expenses of Veronica Landry of Colorado Spring, a contractor who was exposed to ...
The Spokesman-Review
February 13, 2018
Several private Russian military contractors were killed by a U.S. strike in Syria, Russian media reported Tuesday, Feb. ... look increasingly as part of efforts to create a quasi-state on a large part of Syrian territory – from the eastern bank of the Euphrates River all the way to the border with Iraq,” he said.
RT
December 31, 1999
The report provides Department of Defense contractor personnel numbers for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018. It includes personnel in Syria, along with those deployed to Iraq, Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), Afghanistan, Operation Freedom's Sentinel (OFS), and the US Central Command area of ...
The New Arab
December 31, 1999
Special Immigrant Visas, a State Department initiative to provide asylum to Afghan and Iraqi contractors, have allowed some former interpreters to emigrate to the US. Nonetheless, thousands remain stuck in Iraq. The New Arab spoke to Laith al-Haydar, a former interpreter, to learn more about the ...
The Young Turks
December 31, 1999
Previous reports did not acknowledge any U.S. contractor presence in Syria. The January report, for instance, breaks out data only for Iraq and Afghanistan. The new report lumps together data for Iraq and Syria, but does not specify what activities contractors are conducting in the respective countries.
The Hill
December 31, 1999
However, for many of our Iraqi wartime allies, violence persists. Over the course of the conflict, thousands of Iraqis provided valuable service to U.S. forces, diplomats, contractors and other government personnel to assist the U.S. mission in Iraq. I know because I worked with some of them. For this reason, I ...
The Columbus Dispatch
December 31, 1999
She is among thousands of veterans and civilian contractors who blame the "burn pits" for a host of health problems, including leukemia, brain tumors, congestive heart failure, severe ... Hired as a contractor for KBR, Terry Evans, of Dunkirk in Hardin County, flew to Tallil Air Base in Iraq in November 2008.
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