Washington is also closely watching events in long-standing allies such as Bahrain, home to the US Fifth Fleet.

From 2003 - 2008 he was campaigner and spokesman for his long-standing political ally, Czech President Václav Klaus.

Jimmy, well, the last thing he would've wanted was to out two long-standing allies for their complicity in banned nuclear-bomb testing.

Thus, the future of the bases in the Philippines will be determined not by Mr. Gorbachev's public relations tactics but by these two long-standing allies.

However, Yamato Japan and Baekje had been long-standing and very close allies.

Baekje and Yamato Japan had been long-standing allies and their royal houses had blood relations.

Ed Balls had hoped to win suppport of union whose political director, Charlie Whelan, is a long-standing ally.

Hezbollah, a long-standing ally of the regime, has stood in support of Bashar al-Assad, citing their status as a state of "resistance".

Li Han recalled that Terra's long-standing allies the Ophiuchi had adopted the human naval rank structure.

But for long stretches in the 1980's, he organized his insurgency against the Vietnamese-installed government from a base in Thailand, a long-standing American ally.