"All are soldiers. Their objective was to overthrow the junta," it quoted an unnamed lawmaker in the National Transition ...

He became the acting president of Myanmar, also known as Burma, after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi four years ago.

: Leader of Mali's ruling junta Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, attends an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on ...

Treasury Department freezes assets of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, Alexandre de Moraes, who is helping lead a case ...

Brazil’s chief prosecutor has called for a guilty verdict in the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, accused of leading a coup plot that sought to overturn the 2022 election result.

A day after Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir issued nuclear threats against India during a speech in the United States, ...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claims to have uncovered "overwhelming evidence" that former President Barack ...

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.

Declan Walsh, the chief Africa correspondent for The New York Times. Demonstrators in favor of the coup in Niamey, Niger’s capital, earlier this month. -/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...

Was this really proof of a coup? Not likely. The video named the coup’s mastermind as Dan Whitman, an American who served as the U.S. Embassy spokesman in Haiti 20 years ago.