Coup

'Slackness, fatigue, and boredom on war preparedness' have led to a blood-letting overhaul in the upper echelons of the CCP’s Rocket Force.

Commentary A change of rulers is the joy of fools, goes the old Romanian folk saying, and I ...

LIBREVILLE—The leader of a coup that ousted Gabon's President Ali Bongo was sworn in as interim president and ...

Gabon’s senior military leadership has seized power in the small, Central African nation, saying on Aug. 30 that ...

Commentary The coup in Niger has implications for U.S. foreign policy in Africa and Europe. On Aug. 7, ...

Commentary What happens now in Africa after the influence of the major foreign powers—the United States, the United ...

Two weeks after Niger’s pro-Western leader was ousted in a military coup, some fellow West African states—but not ...

Commentary It's possible, even probable, that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was, ...

A military coup threatened to overthrow the Russian government this weekend. The brutal Wagner private military company claimed ...

Commentary President Joe Biden on Feb. 6 renewed the national emergency with respect to the situation in Burma, ...

Twenty-five supporters of a group preparing to violently overthrow the German state were detained by German authorities on ...

Commentary Many readers reported reading that strange things were happening in China. For example, Twitter and Newsweek reported that ...

Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping made his first public appearance in nearly two weeks, terminating an absence that ...

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) head Xi Jinping has rallied senior provincial and ministerial officials to top-secret meetings in ...

Commentary Dictators in China, Russia, Burma (Myanmar), and Ethiopia are today conducting genocide. Others in North Korea, Iran, ...

Inflation is as bad as ever, with the latest data showing it's soaring at a 40-year high. What ...

A former senior U.S. official says he helped plan foreign coups, while arguing that what happened on January ...

John Bolton, the former White House national security adviser for the Trump administration, has claimed that he previously helped plan ...

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used the Russia-Ukraine war as a cover to undertake new initiatives ...

A former Venezuelan general accused of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy with the country's president, Nicolás Maduro, says ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Burkina Faso's army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government ...

Analysis Beijing officially charged Sun Lijun, a former deputy minister of Public Security, with accepting bribes, manipulating the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters at a Nov. 26 press briefing in Kyiv that his country's intelligence ...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, whose iron-fisted rule of the country following a 1979 military ...

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping will not be attending the upcoming United Nations climate summit. Experts ...

CAIRO—Sudanese security forces detained three prominent pro-democracy figures overnight, their relatives and other activists said Wednesday, as internal ...

Thousands of people flooded the streets of Sudanese capital Khartoum and its twin city of Omdurman to protest ...