Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 40 southern Helmand province 39 Marjah 36 Taliban stronghold 36 Taliban fighters 36 opium 35 Helmand 35 Helmand province 34 cluster 34 Sangin 34 Kandahar province 32 clusters 32 Musa Qala 32 sprawling 32 poppy 32 Taliban insurgency 31 tiny 31 Helmand Province 31 stronghold 31 bustling 31 resurgent Taliban 30 multibillion dollar 30 shrank 30 Taliban militants 30 clustered 30 decimated 30 mushroomed 29 boomed 29 crippling 28 hub 28 linchpin 28 insurgency 28 Taliban 28 heartland 27 coca 27 poppies 27 hashish 27 dense 27 wreaked havoc 27 Taleban 27 central 27 stagnated 27 densely 26 thriving 26 shriveled 26 pomegranate 26 centerpiece 26 halved 26 withered 26 quadrupled 26 burgeoning 26 sputtered 26 dwarfing 26 massive 26 warlords 26 mainstay 26 sprouted 26 tripled 26 cultivation 26 booming 26 shrunk 26 continued unabated 25 swelled 25 dwindled 25 counter narcotics 25 slowed 25 nascent 25 grape 25 drug trafficking 25 drug lords 25 fivefold 25 drug traffickers 24 nearly 24 steadily 24 hovered 24 doubled 24 narcotics 24 flourishing 24 nodes 24 quadrupling 24 tripling 24 shrinking 24 area 24 paralleled 24 eradication 24 flourished 24 proliferated 24 fueled 24 lagged 24 plagued 24 Kandahar 24 clustering 24 sparking 24 surged 23 haven 23 sevenfold 23 crippled 23 figured prominently 23 herb 23 clumps 23 hotbed 23 fizzled