Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 49 Awakening Councils 43 Sunni tribesmen 43 Sunni insurgents 42 lashkars 42 Shia militias 41 Shiite militias 41 sectarian militias 41 militias 40 roadside bombings 40 Shia militia 40 Sunni extremists 40 sectarian violence 40 sectarian killings 40 sectarian bloodshed 39 Shi'ite militias 39 troop buildup 39 troop surge 39 troop levels 39 Shiite militia 39 explosively formed penetrators 38 Suicide bombings 38 Shiite extremists 38 Anbar Province 38 Anbar province 38 civilian casualties 37 Insurgent attacks 37 western Anbar province 37 Shi'ite militia 37 Shiite militiamen 37 al Sadr Mahdi Army 37 Saddam ouster 37 al Anbar province 37 Shiites 36 insurgents 36 topple Saddam Hussein 36 Shiite clerics 36 Saddam loyalists 36 al Sadr militia 36 Homicides 36 Sunni insurgent 36 bombings kidnappings 36 Anbar province west 36 sectarian divide 36 Sunni triangle 35 insurgent strongholds 35 toppled Saddam Hussein 35 forces 35 Sunni 35 Anbar 35 tribal militias 35 Shias 35 combat brigades 35 Abizaid 35 Odierno 35 Sunni insurgency 35 Shi'a 35 Abu Musab Zarqawi 35 Iraq 35 counterinsurgency 35 sectarian divisions 35 reprisal killings 35 Sahwa 35 AQI 34 Muslim sects 34 oust Saddam Hussein 34 PRTs 34 homicides 34 Sunni insurgent stronghold 34 al Zarqawi 34 Sunnis 34 Badr Brigade 34 Khalilzad 34 Shiite dominated 34 Shiite Muslim 34 Al Sadr 34 missile strikes 34 Mehdi Army 33 Awakening Council 33 sectarian bloodletting 33 Ba'athists 33 Al Zarqawi 33 Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al 33 Sunni Muslim 33 Sadr militia 33 Shiite 33 US backed 33 Iraqis 33 al Sadr 33 Gen. Ray Odierno 33 insurgent 33 Shiite Muslims 33 Shi'ites 33 violence 33 Sectarian violence 33 majority Shi'ites 33 cleric Moqtada al Sadr 32 Gen. Mark Kimmitt 32 Michael O'Hanlon 32 sectarian slaughter 32 Mahdi Army militiamen 32 EFPs