OVERSEAS INTEL

Days after losing more than a dozen security contractors to a suicide attack in Kabul, Nepal has banned its citizens from working in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, Reuters reported on Saturday. The news agency said the decision was taken after a parliamentary panel asked the government to swoop on traffickers who send thousands of […]

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A Northrop Grumman unit has removed to Virginia federal court a dispute over whether DynCorp overcharged the U.S. Department of Defense on a counter-narcotics subcontract, saying a pending request for U.S. Army interpretation of the deal requires federal oversight of the case. Because the dispute — involving competing claims that DynCorp International LLC improperly withheld […]

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Receiving scant attention from Western mainstream media outlets except for a few notable exceptions, Americans and many alternative media outlets have remained ignorant to the fact that private mercenaries from Academi formally Blackwater appear to have been contracted by the GCC Gulf state feudal monarchies to assist in the military war of terror in Yemen […]

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Behind the president’s directive to ‘accelerate’ the counter-ISIS campaign came a surge in the number of contractors assisting in the campaign against ISIS. The number of private contractors working for the U.S. Defense Department in Iraq grew eight-fold over the past year, a rate that far outpaces the growing number of American troops training and […]

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