Sheikh Khalifa took power from his cousin in a bloodless coup in 21995 and was ousted by his son in another bloodless coup, in 227.
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Two years ago the army seized power in a bloodless coup.
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A bloodless coup finally restored order to the country in 2013.
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His last government was toppled in a bloodless coup in 1999.
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Mr. Sharif's last government was toppled in a bloodless coup in 1999.
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He replaces Robert Mugabe, 93, the strongman he helped oust in a bloodless coup.
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President Yahya Jammeh has ruled for two decades since seizing power in a bloodless coup.
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A former military commander, al-Bashir came into power after leading a bloodless coup in 1989.
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President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled for 30 years, was ousted in a bloodless coup.
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Yet as the bloodless coup against him unfolded, Beijing offered no words of support or sympathy.
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Six years later a group of military officers and civil servants initiated a near bloodless coup.
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Mr. Musharraf toppled Mr. Sharif's government in 1999 in a bloodless coup and ruled until 2008.
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He overthrew his father in a bloodless coup in 1970, becoming the longest serving Arab leader.
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Pervez Musharraf took over the government in a bloodless coup, overthrowing democratically-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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Saturday's marches marked the 34th anniversary of the overthrow of President al-Nimeiri in a bloodless coup.
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Instead of Amazon buying Whole Foods, now we have a bloodless coup that he is predicting. Yeah.
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In 1999, his government was toppled in a bloodless coup by the army chief at the time, Gen.
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I think we're in the midst of what I would call a slow coup, a slow bloodless coup.
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That changed on January 31st, when Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan's reforming president, pushed the puppeteer aside in a bloodless coup.
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Muammar el-Qaddafi, the 27-year-old junior military officer who took power in a bloodless coup in 1969.
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Al-Bashir came to power in a bloodless coup in 1985 and has since ruled with an iron fist.
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Jammeh has long been accused of human rights abuses during his rule that began after a bloodless coup in 1994.
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After toppling Mr Mugabe in a bloodless coup in November and promising a clean election, they have returned to form.
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The former army general, who became president in 1999 after leading a bloodless coup, resigned as Pakistan's leader in 2008.
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Pervez Musharraf ousts Sharif&aposs government in a bloodless coup after Sharif fails in his attempt to sack the army chief.
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General Abdelkhalig and other senior generals ousted Mr. al-Bashir in a bloodless coup in the predawn darkness of April 11.
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He seized power from his father in a bloodless coup in 1970 and established the country's written constitution during the 1990s.
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He had returned from exile after Bashir was toppled by the military, 30 years after he took power in a bloodless coup.
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Mnangagwa, of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), has been president since the military ousted Mugabe in a bloodless coup.
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President Yahya Jammeh has ruled Gambia, a small country almost encircled by Senegal, for two decades since seizing power in a bloodless coup.
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One Qatari exile has suggested a "bloodless coup" to replace Doha&aposs leadership, while Saudi Arabia has promoted little-known Qatari ruling family members.
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After a bloodless coup in 29 replaced the absolute monarchy with a constitutional one, a symbiotic relationship developed between the monarchy and the military.
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Musharraf seized power in 1999 in a bloodless coup against then prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who returned to office in a democratic election in 2013.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Things were supposed to be different in Zimbabwe after its former strongman ruler, Robert Mugabe, was deposed in a bloodless coup in 173.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Things were supposed to be different in Zimbabwe after its former strongman ruler, Robert Mugabe, was deposed in a bloodless coup in 2017.
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In November 1976, Mr. Bagaza, by then a lieutenant colonel and deputy chief of staff of the army, deposed Mr. Micombero in a bloodless coup.
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He and his father removed his cousin, the previous Crown Prince, Mohamed bin Nayef, as the Saudi heir apparent in a bloodless coup in June.
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The move could bring a rapid end to a crisis that was triggered when the country's military ousted Mugabe in a bloodless coup last week.
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The Western-backed Qaboos has ruled since taking over from his father in a bloodless coup with the help of the Oman's former colonial power, Britain.
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In 26, he headed an Islamist junta that ousted Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi in a bloodless coup, Sudan's fourth military takeover since independence in 19893.
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Nilsen wrote: The move could bring a rapid end to a crisis that was triggered when the country's military ousted Mugabe in a bloodless coup last week.
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As army chief of staff, Ershad seized power in a bloodless coup on April 24, 1982, overthrowing then president Abdus Sattar, and declared himself president in 1983.
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Section 44 was invoked by the junta in 2015 to replace martial law, which was imposed just days before a May 2014 bloodless coup by the army.
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The treason trial was initiated in 2013 by the prime minister at the time, Nawaz Sharif, whose earlier government Mr. Musharraf had toppled in a bloodless coup.
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An act of the Cabinet behind closed doors to decommission Trump -- if this was truly considered -- would have been greeted by his supporters as a bloodless coup.
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In the past Venezuela's combination of hyperinflation, economic collapse and an unpopular and now illegitimate government would have prompted a pronunciamiento (bloodless coup), with or without American help.
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Musharraf came to power in 1999 in a bloodless coup against Nawaz Sharif, who is now prime minister, and stood down nine years later when threatened with impeachment.
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Mr. Prayuth is a military general who seized power from a democratically elected government in a bloodless coup in 2014, and has repeatedly postponed plans for free elections.
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Polls give former intelligence chief Mnangagwa, who took over as president after the army ousted Mugabe in a bloodless coup in November, only a slim lead over Chamisa.
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Late King Norodom Sihanouk declared Cambodia's independence from France in 1953 after seizing power a year earlier in a bloodless coup, but maintained good relations with the European nation.
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Protests are rare in Gambia, a sliver of territory almost encircled by Senegal, where President Yahya Jammeh has ruled for two decades since seizing power in a bloodless coup.
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The former British colony of more than 300 Pacific islands, with a population of about 910,000, was suspended from the British Commonwealth and isolated diplomatically after the bloodless coup.
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The military, which has ruled the nuclear-armed country for almost half its history and ended Sharif's second stint in power in 1999 in a bloodless coup, denies involvement.
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Western-backed Qaboos, 79, has ruled the Arabian peninsula state since he took over in a bloodless coup with the help of Oman's former colonial power, Britain, in 1970.
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Western-backed Qaboos, 79, has ruled the Arabian Peninsula state since he took over in a bloodless coup in 1970 with the help of Oman's former colonial power Britain.
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Thailand's generals seized power in bloodless coup two years ago, saying their action was needed to end months of street protests that had paralyzed the government and hobbled the economy.
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Musharraf -- who became president after a bloodless coup in 1999 -- went into self-imposed exile in 2008 in London and later Dubai after standing down as president a year earlier.
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Prayuth heads the ruling junta, or National Council for Peace and Order, that took power after a bloodless coup toppled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's elected government in May 2014 coup.
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In Syria's case, Minawi said, seeing the end of the Assad family's rule—which started with a bloodless coup by Bashar's father Hafez Assad in 1970—would be victory enough.
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The Arabian Peninsula state has been ruled by Qaboos since he took over from his father in a bloodless coup with the help of Oman's former colonial power, Britain, in 1970.
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Finally, in 22019 Bourguiba's prime minister at the time, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, declared the president mentally unfit and too ill to govern and ousted him in a bloodless coup.
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Yingluck became Thailand's first female prime minister when she led the Puea Thai Party to victory in a July 2011 general election, only to be toppled in the largely bloodless coup.
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The military, which has ruled the nuclear-armed country for almost half its history and ended Sharif's second stint in power in 1999 in a bloodless coup, has repeatedly denied any interference.
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Almost exactly 30 years after Omar al-Bashir seized power in a bloodless coup, shunting aside his democratically elected predecessor, the man who did so much to wreck Sudan has himself been toppled.
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Addressing soldiers this month, Bashir, a 75-year-old former paratrooper who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1989, said he would only move aside for another army officer, or at the ballot box.
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At rallies before the election, Mr. Sharif complained of what he said had been a conspiracy to unseat him, making veiled references to the Pakistani military, which ousted him in a bloodless coup in 1999.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday that the ruling party was receiving "extremely positive" information from their representatives, a day after the first election since Robert Mugabe resigned following a bloodless coup.
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The protests were a rare instance of open opposition to the iron-fisted rule of President Yahya Jammeh, who has ruled the tiny West African country for two decades after seizing power in a bloodless coup.
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The former British colony of 300 tropical islands, with a population of about 910,000, was suspended from the British Commonwealth and isolated internationally after Bainimarama, then army commander, seized power in a bloodless coup in 2006.
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When Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the crown prince of Qatar, took power in a bloodless coup in 22015, he seized a barely independent nation about the size of Connecticut, with one-seventh its population.
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She was arrested in November in a dawn raid on her home in the capital after allegedly calling Mugabe, who was ousted in a bloodless coup a few weeks later, a "selfish and sick man" on Twitter.
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From the 1950s onward, the country began to transform itself through its oil and natural gas resources, and since a bloodless coup in 1995, and subsequent political reform, has directed much of this wealth into diversified investment.
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HARARE (Reuters) - The army chief who led the bloodless coup that ended Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule was installed as Zimbabwe's vice president on Thursday, becoming the most senior of a clutch of military figures to enter government.
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Jammeh, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1994, has made headlines for eccentric proclamations, including a claim to have invented a cure for HIV/AIDS and his recent surprise decision to make Gambia an Islamic republic.
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Bashir, a former paratrooper who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1989, has been a divisive figure who has managed his way through one internal crisis after another while withstanding attempts by the West to weaken him.
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Jammeh, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1994, has made headlines for his eccentric proclamations, including a claim to have invented a cure for HIV/AIDS, and his recent surprise decision to make Gambia an Islamic republic.
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He isn't aware of the Cali cartel's "bloodless coup" of his Miami operation, which took little more than convincing "the Lion" of Escobar's weakness and allowing the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers to take over like managers of an existing franchise.
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The merits of the case against her concerning budgetary violations were almost irrelevant: She called her ouster a bloodless coup, but it was also a vote of no-confidence in a country that lacks a legal provision for that.
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Napoleon had taken power in a bloodless coup d'état, and the next year he solidified his political supremacy with a victory in Piedmont, where the 30-year-old general surprised the Austrians by traversing the Alps's most hazardous pass.
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In 2006, a Temasek-led $3.8 billion investment in Shin Corp, then owned by the family of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, triggered a prolonged political crisis in Bangkok that led to Thaksin's ouster in a bloodless coup.
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During my second year in Bangkok there was what amounted to a near-bloodless coup that saw the government of Yingluck Shinawatra deposed by orchestrated protests in which permanent stages were set up at strategic points in the city.
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Reviewing his political career since the first time he was jailed, after his overthrow in a bloodless coup in 1999, Mr Sharif told The Economist on board the Etihad flight that his battle with the "establishment" was "heading towards its peak".
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After rifle-toting soldiers overthrew Thailand&aposs elected government in a bloodless coup in May 2014, the new military leaders, like a succession of Thai coup makers before them, pledged reform and reconciliation and promised they wouldn&apost stay long.
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Jammeh, a former soldier who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1994, has made headlines for eccentric proclamations, including a claim to have invented a cure for HIV/AIDS and his recent surprise decision to make Gambia an Islamic republic.
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Section 44, which gives Prayuth the authority to issue orders based on national security interests, was invoked by the junta in 2015 to replace martial law, which was imposed just days before a May 2014 bloodless coup by the army.
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He recalled how, when he was a student in 1965 at Kinshasa University, a young army general named Joseph Mobutu seized power in a bloodless coup to the delight of much of the country, then known as the Republic of Congo.
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In an address on state television, Defence Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf said Bashir, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1989, was under arrest in a "safe place" and a military council was now running the country.
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He recalled how, when he was a student in 83 at Kinshasa University, a young army general named Joseph Mobutu seized power in a bloodless coup to the delight of much of the country, then known as the Republic of Congo.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf, who came to power in 1999 in a bloodless coup against current Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was acquitted on Monday of the murder of a separatist leader in 2006, removing one of several cases against him.
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It feels as if a century has passed since I was in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, just after Mr. al-Bashir ousted Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi in a bloodless coup supported by the Islamists and the army in December 1989.
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Oman declared three days of official mourning with flags to be flown at half-mast for 40 days for the Western-backed Qaboos, 79, who ruled since taking over in a bloodless coup in 1970 with the help of former colonial power Britain.
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Mnangagwa, who replaced Mugabe in a bloodless coup in November, told the BBC on Wednesday he believed the attack had been carried out by the G40 group — a faction in the ruling ZANU-PF party which wanted Grace Mugabe to succeed her husband.
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His brother was in charge, this is Mohammed bin Nayef, and he does this sort of 003 hour bloodless coup and managed to take over and he's sort of telegenic, he's talking about the future and technology and getting Saudi Arabia off of oil.
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Addressing soldiers this month, Bashir, a 2300-year-old former paratrooper who seized power in a bloodless coup in 20133, warned the "rats to go back to their holes" and said he would only move aside for another army officer, or at the ballot box.
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Oman and fellow Gulf states declared three days of official mourning with flags to be flown at half-mast for the Western-backed Qaboos, 79, who ruled since taking over in a bloodless coup in 1970 with the help of former colonial power Britain.
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Qatar's Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who came to power in a bloodless coup in 1995, promoted Qatar as an exporter of liquefied natural gas — natural gas chilled to its liquid state, which takes up far less volume and can be shipped by sea.
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Unlike their Georgian and Ukrainian neighbors in 2003 and 2014, the Armenians demonstration against poverty and corruption resulted in a bloodless coup Armenia, an important Russian ally, also hosts a Russian military base, and Russia's decision not to intervene in the revolution took many by surprise.
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That gave him a platform to reform a country that in 1970 - when he seized power by deposing his own father in a bloodless coup assisted by British spies - had only one primary school, one medical clinic, and no tarmac road connecting its only international airport to the capital Muscat.
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Partisans cite evidence to support both the theory of an attempted "bloodless coup" by political hacks inside the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) and the theory that dedicated professionals had reason to believe there was a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians sufficient to launch an unprecedented counterintelligence operation.
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I think the calculus changed a week ago and that is, the current administration has lacked so much credibility and at this point, is seen as, I think, so stupid they're becoming perceived as dangerous that I believe we're in the midst of what is referred to as, strangely enough, called a white coup or a bloodless coup.
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