Iraqi govt. urged to take Trump's pardons for Blackwater guards to intl. court, UNSC

A member of the security and defense committee in the Iraqi parliament has sharply criticized US President Donald Trump's decision to pardon four former Blackwater contractors jailed over the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians, calling on the Baghdad government to take the case to an international court as well as the UN Security. Adnan al-Asadi told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency on Friday that Blackwater, now renamed Academi, consisted of a group of mercenaries who were brought by US military forces to Iraq...