Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 49 invading armies 47 dusty plains 47 garrisoning 46 redoubts 45 god forsaken 45 redoubt 45 barbarians 45 fertile plains 45 Fighting erupts 44 reconquered 44 invaders 44 despotic rule 44 guerilla fighters 44 mad mullahs 44 earthly paradise 44 impregnable fortress 44 God forsaken 43 Pushtun 43 Islamist fundamentalists 43 regions bordering 43 badlands 43 Fighting rages 43 Manchus 43 sparsely inhabited 43 suzerainty 43 tyrannous 42 Pushtuns 42 grassy plains 42 tyrannized 42 Jihadis 42 Saddam Husseins 42 Jihadists 42 Turkistan 42 hellholes 41 Godforsaken 41 Bamiyan Buddhas 41 craggy mountains 41 jihadis 41 medievalism 41 Large swathes 41 Mughal empire 41 backlands 41 westerners 41 Mongol invasion 41 pestilential 41 Jehadis 41 splendours 41 inhospitable terrain 41 forbidding terrain 41 hinterlands 40 despotic rulers 40 remotest regions 40 Talibans 40 mountainous 40 mountains 40 Al Qa'eda 40 theocracies 40 barren wasteland 40 jihadists 40 squalid refugee camps 40 mujahidin 40 Pashtunistan 40 islamists 40 Al Qaeda sympathizers 40 puppet regimes 40 Soviet occupiers 40 fundamentalists 40 cave dweller 40 reconquest 40 housetops 40 Afghanistans 40 ancien regime 40 Islamofascists 40 arid plains 40 Qandil Mountains 40 warring militias 40 vast expanses 40 mudbrick 39 fertile 39 inhabitants 39 Soviets invaded 39 Swathes 39 Islamists 39 tyrannical rule 39 ravening 39 Najd 39 religious fanatics 39 vast swathes 39 scrublands 39 largely uninhabited 39 avowed enemies 39 benighted 39 British colonialists 39 godforsaken 39 islamist 39 despotic regime 39 marxists 39 desolated 39 Southasia 39 pestilence 39 feuding warlords