Private military contractors in Iraq skyrocketed in number by eight times over the period of January 2015 to January 2016, according to a new Pentagon report to Congress. There were just 250 contractors in Iraq in January 2015, a number that has surged to 2,028. Exactly 70 percent are American nationals, 20 percent are from other […]
According to the Department of Defense (DoD), the contract worth $7,954,992 for electrical safety assessments, repairs program, materials management and control services within U.S. Central Command. Work will be performed in Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain, with an estimated completion date of March 30, 2018. Fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the […]
According to the Department of Defense (DoD), the contract had $12,943,157 added to an existing contract for administration, information technology engineering and logistical support to the 160th Signal Brigade and subordinate battalions in U.S. Central Command. The work will be performed in Kuwait, Qatar, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Jordan, with an estimated completion date of March 31, 2017. […]
Like in the Balkans, the U.S. should get Iraq’s warring sides to the table at all costs. In the fall of 1995 Bosnia was on the edge, forced into a ceasefire after 3 years of some of the most vicious and inhumane sectarian warfare in history. Hatred between the Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats exceeded anything […]
Three U.S. citizens who disappeared in Baghdad, kidnapped and are being held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, two Iraqi intelligence and two U.S. government sources said last month. Unknown gunmen seized the three from a brothel in the southeastern Dora district of Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. They are the first Americans to be abducted in Iraq […]