By 609 BCE, the Assyrians and their Egyptian allies had been defeated.

That changed in February and a fresh initiative to Hamas - backed by its Egyptian allies, the Muslim Brotherhood - found the Islamist organisation more receptive than before.

Some of the Special Forces guys came and took him to Egypt for a little free-agent interrogation by our close Egyptian allies.

FLOSY, now without any military support from its Egyptian allies, still battled it out with the NLF.

The Karamanid state was eventually terminated by the Ottomans in 1487, as the power of their Egyptian allies was declining.

It was briefly retaken by Ashur-uballit II and his Egyptian allies in 609 BC before it definitely fell to the Medes and Babylonians.

In 269 Zenobia, her army, and the Palmyrene General Zabdas violently conquered Egypt with help from their Egyptian ally, Timagenes, and his army.

The next three years saw the remnants of the Assyrian army and their Egyptian allies vainly attempting to eject the invaders from Assyria.

Once his forces had defeated the Assyrians and their Egyptian allies, Nabopolassar gave up the throne in favour of his son, Nebuchadnezzar II.

France was forced to give up supporting its Egyptian ally.