Mikhail Gorbachev with Yasser Arafat, March 2, 2000, in Ramallah. (Jamal Aruri/AFP)
A failed putsch on Aug. 19 to Aug. 21, 1991 saw a handful of conservative communists try to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. In the aftermath, however, neither Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nor his Libyan counterpart Muammar Gaddafi congratulated the...
A failed putsch on Aug. 19 to Aug. 21, 1991 saw a handful of conservative communists try to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. In the aftermath, however, neither Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nor his Libyan counterpart Muammar Gaddafi congratulated the...