Coup

Islamic Republic has no option but to wage war to survive, Iranian student says - interview

Minoo, a left-wing student at a university in Tehran, told The Media Line that the January uprising "demonstrated how millions of people...could overthrow the regime."

 Labor protests and strikes have intensified in recent weeks. The photo shows workers at the Iran Berk factory in Rasht gathering and striking over 19 months of unpaid wages.
Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi shakes hands with Myanmar's Resident Representative and Head of Delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Arnaude de Baecque, in Naypyidaw, Myanmar August 3, 2026.

Detained Myanmar leader met by Red Cross for first contact since ousting of gov't in coup

Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi speaks to the press as he takes part in a roundtable discussion regarding the situation in Iran at the Dutch parliament in The Hague on July 6, 2026; illustrative.

Pahlavi remains Iran’s main opposition figure, lack of US backing causing failure at regime change

Soldiers from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) patrol on a vehicle, next to an area destroyed by Myanmar's airstrike in Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union, in Myanmar, April 15, 2024.

Myanmar detains US businessman who wrote about military coup, sources say


Fresh violence in Kazakhstan after Russia sends troops to quell uprising

Armored personnel carriers and troops arrived in Almaty on Thursday. Internet in the country is mostly shut down. Eight police and national guard troops killed, 1,000 people injured during protests

 Kazakh law enforcement officers are seen on a barricade during a protest triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 5, 2022.

Myanmar soldiers accused of killing 11 after charred remains found

Video footage purporting to show the burned bodies was circulated on social media and images were published by some media, including the Myanmar Now news portal.

Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup on February 1, presides an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021.

Freed journalist Danny Fenster celebrates personal Hanukkah miracle

Fenster, the journalist freed from Myanmar on November 15, will be honored in his native Detroit’s Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony on Sunday.

 American journalist Danny Fenster, who was released from prison on Monday after negotiations between former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson and the ruling military junta in Myanmar, embraces his mother Rose after arriving at JFK International airport in New York.

A Russia-backed coup against Ukraine planned for December - Zelensky

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine was in full control of its borders and was ready for any escalation with Russia.

Russian servicemen representing the Kremlin Regiment march during a military parade rehearsal in Moscow's Red Square.

Sudan military to reinstate PM Hamdok after deal

Under an agreement signed with military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Abdalla Hamdok will lead a civilian government of technocrats for a transitional period.

Sudan Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks during joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Khartoum, Sudan September 3, 2019

At least 15 people shot dead in anti-coup protests in Sudan

Security forces fired live rounds and tear gas to prevent gatherings in all three cities, and mobile phone communications were cut, witnesses said.

PEOPLE GATHERED on the streets last week in Khartoum amid billowing smoke and reports of a coup in Sudan.

Sudan's future is entangled in their connection with Israel - opinion

Blinken asked Israel to encourage the Sudanese military to restore the country to stability after the Sudanese coup.

 PROTESTERS GESTURE and shout slogans as they demonstrate in Khartoum last month against the Sudanese military’s seizure of power and ousting of the civilian government.

Anti-coup demonstrations in Sudan demand return of civilian government

The ousted prime minister, Abdallah Hamdok, has been under house arrest since Oct. 25.

PEOPLE GATHERED on the streets last week in Khartoum amid billowing smoke and reports of a coup in Sudan.

Who is Danny Fenster, Jewish-US journalist jailed in Myanmar?

Fenster's trial has been conducted in military-run courts inside the prison with no access for outside observers.

Managing editor for Frontier Myanmar Danny Fenster is pictured in this handout picture taken in Yangon, Myanmar November 2020.

Myanmar jails Jewish US journalist Danny Fenster for 11 years

He is the first Western journalist to be jailed in recent years in Myanmar following its military coup.

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