A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy ...

The recent coup d’état in Gabon marks the latest casualty of the “coup contagion” spreading across Africa. Given the frenetic pace of the minute-by-minute news cycle of the social media era, it’s easy ...

Far from merely being an internal event, the Benin coup attempt briefly placed the geopolitics of the entire region under a ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Thailand is, notoriously, the only middle-income or high-middle income country that continues to have regular coups. (Brazil defeated a coup ...

• A coup is shorthand for "coup d’etat," a French term that means the overthrow of the government. The key element of a coup is that it is carried out beyond the bounds of legality. Coups can be ...

Conakry, Guinea — Mutinous soldiers in the West African nation of Guinea detained President Alpha Conde on Sunday after hours of heavy gunfire rang out near the presidential palace in the capital, ...

Benin President Patrice Talon said on Sunday that the West African nation's government and armed forces had thwarted a coup ...

Bolivian President Luis Arce announced three new heads of the South American country's armed forces following an attempted coup in which military units used armored vehicles to ram into the doors of ...

A pro-democracy demonstrator pulls a Soviet soldier from his tank in front of Moscow's White House on Aug. 19, 1991, as a coup attempted to install a hardline right-wing dictatorship. Credit: DIMA ...

Clayton Besaw is a research associate with the One Earth Future Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes peace and security in post-conflict countries. Jonathan Powell does not work for, ...