To win hearts and minds in Afghanistan and Iraq, military experts want U.S. companies to contract with local firms for a variety of tasks li

IG questions whether State Department is ready to take over many reconstruction tasks in Iraq

Two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide have accused the private security contractor of defrauding the government for years through pho

A judge’s decision that his court was not the proper venue for a dispute between a Kuwaiti firm and the family of an American soldier killed

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Controversial charges by contractor KBR for work done in Iraq are getting new scrutiny from the Pentagon, PaperTrail has learned....

Whistleblower Charles M. Smith, who oversaw Pentagon contracts in Iraq, says he was forced out of his job in 2004 after refusing to pay defe

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