the last coup - newspaper

The coup was yet another episode in the seemingly never-ending Pakistani soap opera, marked by alternating ineffectual rule by an elected government and authoritarian rule by a self-appointed leader from the army. . ... At one point the army was even pressed into reading electricity meters...

international resistance in world war 2 europe

While national histories of wartime resistance are plentiful, the European dimension of the shadow army has rarely been taken into account. ... British Prime Minister Winston Churchill knew that his nation’s ground forces, gutted in 1940, would not return to the old..

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kurds: stateless people across four countries

However Turkish nationalists, led by army General Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, opposed the harsh terms of the treaty and launched a new war. . ... In Turkey, the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a 35-year insurgency against the army in the mainly Kurdish southeast, is..

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