Boris Yeltsin addresses a massive Moscow crowd during the coup attempt in August 1991. Credit: Peter Turnley / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images Yeltsin was an amateur politician, but he wasn't yet ...

The 1953 coup d'etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each year on August 19, ...

And so he set in motion a plan that was to end in the death of 240 people in a bloody standoff on August 1, 1982, which is recorded as Kenya’s second failed coup attempt. As early as May 1982 ...

which addressed societal morals and values. The 1982 Kenyan coup occurred on August 1, when a faction of the Kenya Air Force, led by Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka, attempted to overthrow then ...

MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the lessons of the 1991 government coup are still relevant today and both society and the state ...

BELGRADE, August 9. /TASS/. Moscow has warned Belgrade ... Asked about Western preparations for a coup in the country, he said: "Today, we received official information from the Russian Federation." ...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — Thailand is set to host two major music festivals in its bid to push tourism activities after missing out on Taylor Swift’s world tour recently. Thai government ...