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The two sides, longstanding enemies that fought one of Africa's longest and costliest civil wars, have been at odds for decades, and South Sudan halted oil production in January 2012 in a dispute with Sudan over transportation fees.
A resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict seems as distant as ever, yet Israel has somehow grown close to longstanding enemies such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
In an unusually forthcoming interview with the Korean Central News Agency (K.C.N.A ., Kim said it was "hurtful" that the Republicans would send a letter to one of the United States' most longstanding enemies while "totally snubbing" another.
TAY BAY HTA, MYANMAR -- When Myanmar announced a cease-fire last month with one of the country's most prominent rebel groups, images of longstanding enemies shaking hands across a table were beamed around the globe and touted as evidence of further reconciliation in a country emerging from decades of military dictatorship and interethnic strife.
The move by Germany and other nations to place disarmament high in the strategic concept comports with President Barack Obama's declared goal of eventually abolishing nuclear weapons, but it also exposes a rift between European nations that want to rid the Continent of atomic arms and those that want to keep them both for prestige and as a deterrent to longstanding enemies.
But in addition to the expected challenges from marginalized groups and longstanding enemies of the government, there has been loud criticism from younger members of the Sudanese Islamic Movement, an organization that represents the Islamist core of the governing National Congress Party.
Clarke is a longstanding enemy of Brown's and he has often criticised the prime minister.
His plan envisions persuading Pakistan to stop focusing military resources on its longstanding enemy, India, so it can concentrate more on battling insurgents in its lawless tribal regions.
North Korea will cancel its annual "anti-US imperialism" rally, part of a growing detente with its longstanding enemy as the two countries negotiate over the fate of the North's nuclear weapons program.
The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 – which hugely increased Iran's influence in the region by removing a longstanding enemy, Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime – came a year after the exposure of a secret uranium enrichment facility revealed that Iran had not abandoned its nuclear ambitions.
But many Pakistan watchers have argued that in recent years a new consensus has been forming within military circles, which increasingly see the fight against domestic terrorism as more important to the country's survival than its traditional efforts to dominate Afghanistan and protect against the perceived threat from longstanding enemy India.
