The Role of the Administration in Monitoring the Work of Private Military Security Companies in Iraq

Our tagged message deals with (the role of the administration in monitoring the work of private military security companies in Iraq). And in the case of Iraq specifically, the first basis for the presence of these companies on its territory is the American occupation and its allied countries, and then legitimized by the Security Council’s issuance of its Resolution No. 1483 of 2003, and the researcher shows through his study of the study that the authority of the administration is to monitor the work of private military security companies In Iraq, the penalty for breaching security by security companies, and determining the extent of the administration’s authority to control private security companies that provide military and security services in particular to provide guarding and protection of people and others, and what is meant by security companies here are those companies that provide security services, guards and others, including to diplomatic bodies and embassies, and to provide technical advice and others, and where the legal nature of these security companies was discussed in international and international laws. Organizing and trying to find a correct legal description that applies to these companies, in addition to the provisions and decisions of international courts that are concerned with international crimes and crimes against humanity sometimes committed by these companies and some international agreements that are directly related to the work of security companies, which sometimes conflict with the local laws of countries. Sanctions resulting from the breaches of security companies, whether on the members of these companies or their founding countries and even the countries operating on their territories, which have the duty to protect their citizens from all risks and to compensate them for the damages they suffer as a result of the failure to protect them, and these security companies practiced their work without legal cover and enjoyed immunity Against the Iraqi law as a result of the issuance of the occupation memorandum No. 17 of 2004, and the American forces relied on security companies to reduce its human losses, and as a result, the Iraqi Law No. 52 of 2017 was issued, which ended immunity and protection for these companies, and for that the comparative analytical approach of the texts was used. Associated with the business of private military security companies in light of the provisions of Iraqi legislation It deals with the historical approach, and through it we can stand on the historical developments of the laws of security companies, and the thesis was divided into four chapters, and in each chapter included two chapters, and the thesis ended with a conclusion that included the most prominent results reached by the researcher and the resulting recommendations and suggestions, and perhaps the most important of which are the many The number, whether in terms of the number of companies or the number of individuals working in them, American sources have mentioned that there are 310 security companies operating in Iraq, to ​​which armies of mercenaries are affiliated.