Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin stands on a tank to defy the August Coup - an attempt by hard-line members of the Communist...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after he was ousted from the Palace of Miraflores and arrested by the military in...
Woman walks across a road in Niamey on August 8, 2023. Despite the restrictions on freedoms, the coup in Niger is welcomed by many inhabitants of the...
Supporter of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland demonstrates in Niamey on August 10, 2023. West African leaders on Thursday...
Supporters of the Nigerien defence and security forces gather during a demonstration outside the national assembly in Niamey on July 27, 2023. The...
Protesters gather as a man holds up a sign demanding that soldiers from the United States Army leave Niger without negotiation during a demonstration...
General view of torn campaign posters of ousted Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba and his political party the Gabonese Democratic Party in Libreville...
Supporter of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland wears a hat with a Russian and a Niger flag as he demonstrates in Niamey on...
Protesters hold a sign taken from the French Embassy in Niamey during a demonstration that followed a rally in support of Niger's junta in Niamey on...
Supporter holds a picture of Niger General Abdourahamane Tiani, the chief of the powerful presidential guard, as with others rally in support of...
Residents holding Gabon national flags celebrate in Libreville on August 30, 2023 after a group of Gabonese military officers appeared on television...
General Augusto Pinochet, head of Chile's ruling military junta, holds a news conference at Santiago's War College on September 21, 1973. Pinochet...
Anti-Pinochet government demonstrators, raising clenched fists, on traditional day of presidential voting before September 1973 coup.
Rome, Italy- Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi is flanked by reporters, as he reads a telegram urging him to return to Tehran. After five days in exile in...
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran Arrives in Rome, Italy: The Shah of Iran and his wife, the Empress Soraya, arrive at Rome airport from Bagdad...
Gabonese gendarmes patrol in the Cocotiers neighbourhood near the headquarters of the national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Television Gabonaise in...
Military truck of the Nigerien security forces, part of an escort to a French Army military convoy crosses the Lazaret district in Niamey on October...
Supporters of Niger's National Council of Safeguard of the Homeland gather oustide Niger and French airbase in Niamey on September 3, 2023 to demand...
Supporters wave Russian flags and a placard with an anti France slogan as they rally in support of Niger's junta in Niamey on July 30, 2023. Niger's...
Supporters of the Nigerien defence and security forces gather during a demonstration outside the national assembly in Niamey on July 27, 2023. The...
Malian riot police keep supporters away from the vehicle of new President of Mali's transitional government Assimi Goita as he returns from Accra...
Capitaine Ibrahim Traore, Burkina Faso's new president, attends the ceremony for the 35th anniversary of Thomas Sankaras assassination, in...
Officers of the Niger National Police and Nigerien soldiers stand guard as supporters of the Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the...
Athens, Greece- Armored vehicle patrols street here Dec. 13 after the Greek military junta announced that King Constantine's counter coup had been...
Buenos Aires, Argentina-A scene in the Plaza de Mayo after the announcement of the news that President Ramon Castillo had been ousted by an almost...
Anti-Pinochet Government demonstration on traditional voting day before the coup, raising clenched fists.
View of an Argentine Army tank stationed in front of Government House during a military coup, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 24, 1976. The coup...
Prague, Czechoslovakia- General view of crowds in Wenceslaus Square, Prague, on Feb. 25 when Premier Klement Gottwald announced formation of a new...
Buenos Aires, Argentina-This building in Buenos Aires' Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista was banged up by army tanks and cannon during the revolt...
Buenos Aires, Argentina-Students of Argentina gather around a bust of deposed dictator Juna Peron after the succesful revolt against his regime ended...
Djakarta, Indonesia- Indonesian strongman General Suharto announces that former deputy premier Subandrio will go on trial for treason 10/1, the first...
Santiago, Chile: Last picture of President Salvador Allende of Chile before he committed suicide during armed forces coup d' etat in Santiago, Sept....
View of Argentine soldiers as they stand guard near of Government House during a military coup, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 24, 1976. The coup...
Argentine troops lay with rifles ready in the Plaza de Mayo across from the Presidential Palace, awaiting developments as a military coup ousts the...
An armored car stands outside the Presidential Palace on July 19th, 1968 in the wake of the coup d'etat of July 17. In a bloodless coup Major General...
Jebel Razeh, Yemen- Yemen's ousted Imam Mohammed El-Badr is shown with Royalist tribesmen outside his cave headquarters. At right is the Imam's...
Arica, Chile-Deposed by leaders of the revolutionary coup that overthrew his government, ex-President of Bolivia, General Enrique Penaranda , is...
Buenos Aires, Argentina-Loyal followers of Juan Domingo Peron, President of Argentina crowd every inch of ground in the Plaza de Mayo and overflow to...
Screen grab captured from a video shows the soldiers who appeared on national TV to announce the ouster of President Mohamed Bazoum in Niger, on July...
Chilean Carabineros surround La Moneda Presidential Palace at 8 am, September 11th, 1973. Bound by law to be the Presidential Guard, one hour later...
Chilean Army troops positioned on a rooftop fire on the La Moneda Palace 11 September 1973 in Santiago, during the military coup led by General...
Supporters of Niger's National Council of Safeguard of the Homeland protest outside the Niger and French airbase in Niamey on August 30, 2023 to...
Members of the Republican Guard take part in the military parade in honour of General Brice Oligui Nguema , inaugurated as Gabon's interim President,...
Supporters of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland gather for a demonstration in Niamey on August 11, 2023 near a French...
Supporters of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland demonstrate in Niamey on August 6, 2023. Thousands of supporters of the...
Man holds a placard with the image of Niger's new military ruler General Abdourahamane Tiani on as supporters of Niger's National Council of...
Protesters against Myanmar's military coup march through Ginza area on May 02, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Myanmar has now entered its fourth month under a...
Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security of Economic Community of West African States , Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah , Nigeria's Chief...
People wave and take pictures with men in uniform, moments after the swearing-in ceremony of Brice Oligui Nguema, inaugurated as Gabon's interim...
Residents hold a Gabon national flag as they celebrate in Libreville on August 30, 2023 after a group of Gabonese military officers appeared on...
Tires are set aflame by Sudanese protesters during a demonstration against a tentative deal aimed at ending the crisis provoked by last year's...
Supporters of Burkina Faso's new junta leader Ibrahim Traore hold a national flag during a demonstration near the national radio and television...
Passengers gather near informal motorised canoes ready to ferry passengers across the River Niger that divides Benin and Niger in the town of...
Niger's National Concil for Safeguard of the Homeland leaders Colonel Mamane Sani Kiaou , General Moussan Salaou Barmou and Colonel Ibroh Bachirou...
Supporters of Niger's National Concil of Sefeguard of the Homeland hold Niger national flags during as they gather at Place de la Concertation in...
Small group of protesters holds Russia and Burkina flags as they protest agaisnt the Economic Community of West African States whose representatives...
People celebrate as the Guinean Special Forces arrive at the Palace of the People in Conakry on September 6 ahead of a meeting with the Ministers of...
Clothes and weapons beloging to soldiers involved in the coup attempt that have now surrendered lie on the ground abandoned onBosphorus bridge on...
Soldiers involved in the coup attempt surrender on Bosphorus bridge with their hands raised on July 16, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul's bridges...
