African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in north-east Nigeria as the international community, including long-time foes the US and Iran, rallied against the militants.
More pertinently, that intervention earned Kilmarnock bragging rights over their local foes.
Even so, fans will relish the prospect of seeing two great foes once more facing each other over the board.
Once back in power Aliyev quickly sidelined political foes and consolidated his authority.
The 1994 concern among the Thistle contingent was that their club would be airbrushed from history, a matter seemingly endorsed by the choice of Caley's home ground for the new club's matches and the inflammatory painting of urinal walls in their old foes' colours.
One Shell strategy proposed to "differentiate interest groups into friends and foes", building relationships with the former, while making it "more difficult for hardcore campaigners to sustain their campaigns".
They're back?" Twenty years since the band first called out their foes, L7 are back: they played their first reunion show in LA at the end of May, and will return to the UK to play Download festival this month.
Royal Festival Hall, SE1, Wed; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Fri; touring to 5 Jul JR As one might expect from an event devised by those subeditors' foes, the xx, Night + Day is a less-is-more kind of festival.
Both Syrian forces and rebels use blockades to pressure their foes to surrender, often causing widespread suffering of civilians.
It is left to Allister, quoted in Gordon's book, to explain why Paisley may have shifted 360 degrees at the St Andrews talks in 2006, which led ultimately to the power-sharing coalition with old and deadly foes.
They also battled against less benign foes, and found a place in the hearts of child and childlike viewers.
