The country’s president offered a secret deal that would give the U.S. access to key minerals in return for a security pact ...

Picture: AP /Gerry Broome In 2004, four Blackwater contractors drove past a US Marine checkpoint in the Iraqi city of Fallujah and stumbled into an insurgent ambush. The four were killed ...

Private Paul Lowe, aged 19, died in an ambush just days after the regiment ... the expected all-out assault on the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. The regiment is supposed to cut off the "rat ...