Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced that the government will release a trove of classified documents about 23-F ‘to settle a debt with citizens.’ Questions remain about the role played by ...

Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction on Sept. 11, 2025, puts the former Brazilian president in a rogues’ gallery of failed coup plotters to be held to account for their attempted power grab. Four of the five ...

The end of January 2026 effectively marked the end of party politics in Burkina Faso. On 29 January, Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Korean soldiers try to get into the National Assembly in Seoul on Dec. 3, 2024. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Something ...

In a scene that has become familiar across parts of Africa of late, a group of armed men in military garb appeared on state TV on Dec. 7, 2025, to announce that they had suspended the constitution and ...

BRASILIA — Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested five people, including a member of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, suspected of involvement in an alleged plan to kill then ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story misstated which entity acknowledged the United States' role in the 1953 Iran coup. “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime ...

Military takeovers are nothing new in Guinea-Bissau. The West African country has experienced at least nine attempted and successful coups since gaining independence from Portugal in 1974. But when ...

In November 1993, General Sani Abacha seized power and went on to run the most authoritarian regime in Nigeria’s history. However, a failed coup three years earlier was the cataclysmic event that ...

Are Donald Trump and his associates planning a coup if they lose control of Congress following a possible Democratic victory in the 2026 elections? And, if not in ’26, what about 2030 election? In ...