Gaddafi, a half crazy dictator, was overthrown.

The U.S. ended their main military presence in 2011.

Eventually, workers would rise up and overthrow the system.

Now it is official a mega tiger has been brought down.

Mosaddegh was ousted two weeks later (Source NSA Archive)

The question Georgians have been asking ever since is whether Shevardnadze was really overthrown at all.

President Fernando de la Rúa was brought down by riots that left 29 dead.

Thaksin was ousted by a coup in 2006 but his party has remained victorious in the polls.

Stuart was the son of James II, who had been deposed in 1688 and replaced by his Protestant relations.

The hugely unpopular Shah they installed was swept away in the Islamic revolution in 1979.

A few days ago, the very same man promised Libyans a sea of blood if his father s regime was toppled.

By contrast, Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime is likely to have been ousted before the year s end.

But the fight for press freedom and freedom of expression is not complete until the last dictatorship in the sub region is toppled.

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has returned to Bangkok 17 months after being deposed in a military coup.

The city lost its status as a second capital in 1918, when Wilhelm II abdicated at the end of World War I.

Thaksin, one of Thailand s richest individuals, was ousted as prime minister during the 2006 coup.

After the overthrow of the Taliban regime, the West did not commit enough troops to extend the national government in Kabul s authority over the whole country.

Hosni Mubarak, the secular despot who ran Egypt for 30 years until his downfall in 2011, had little time for Hamas.

ISLAMIST Mohamed Morsi promised a new Egypt as he took the oath of office to become the country's first freely elected president, succeeding Hosni Mubarak who was ousted 16 months ago.

Another dictator was toppled and people move toward freedom, but I worry about the extremist Islamist groups who may take over control.

Prison conditions were notoriously inhumane during the rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam, the former leader of Ethiopia who was ousted by the ruling Ethiopian People s Revolutionary Democratic Front in 1991.

The Christians, in particular, who were protected by Assad, now fear that if the Baath regime is overthrown, they will suffer the same consequences as Christians in Iraq.

They are convinced that, even if Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime falls, Iran will be able to destabilize the country in such a way that would pose a major security threat to Israel.

First and foremost, Erdogan needs all the friends he can get after he was nearly ousted from power last month in a failed coup.

BUENOS AIRES On June 28 a coup deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ending his attempt to hold a referendum that would permit his re election.

Indeed, the Organization of American States (OAS) suspended Honduras last year because of the coup d état that deposed and deported then President Manuel Zelaya.

In other words, Russia is being allowed to re assert its sphere of influence a concept that should have been superceded by that of Europe Whole and Free, which the entire European Union appeared to have embraced when communism collapsed.

Pakistan is likely to face disagreeable diplomatic and economic consequences for inaction. But excessive pressure may only bring down the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, who is personally inclined towards rapprochement with India but who knows that every one of his civilian predecessors has been overthrown.

But excessive pressure may only bring down the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, who is personally inclined towards rapprochement with India but who knows that every one of his civilian predecessors has been overthrown.

Another surprise is how seldom Poroshenko himself is mentioned instead, tweets from Ukrainians contain more mentions of Ukraine's previous president, Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in the wake of the Euromaidan protests in February 2014.

With a new president in Madagascar, the country is finally taking steps towards exiting the four year long political crisis since a military backed coup toppled the last democratically elected leader in 2009.

STONY BROOK, NY Iran s continued unrest, now extending through the 30th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the Shah, raises the question of whether the Islamic Republic is about to fall.

Twitter user Abdou_diarra foresaw on his blog the creation of new regions in northern Mali prior to the military coup that would overthrow President Amadou Toumani Touré in March 2012

Habré, once backed by the United States and France as a bulwark against Libya's Moammar Quadafi, allegedly killed tens of thousands of real and suspected opponents before he was deposed by his former army chief.

With Iraq, the opposite is true, because not only the regime but the country itself might cease to exist, or at least be radically transformed, should Hussein fall.

When Americans were being prepared for the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were demonized for denying cosmetics and hair color to women when the Taliban were overthrown, Western writers often noted that women had taken off their scarves.

January 26, 2016 marks 30 years since President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement took over the rule of Uganda, after a 5 year guerrilla war that toppled then president Milton Obote.

Yet, even if he was largely forgotten after the Rose Revolution of 2003, when he was ousted by his one time protégé, Mikheil Saakashvili, his cunning and skill at manipulating political forces still enabled him to manage his legacy to his advantage.