Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 59 resurgent Taliban militants 56 resurgent Taliban 56 Taleban insurgents 53 Helmand Sangin district 53 Qaeda fighters 52 Taleban fighters 52 militant sanctuaries 52 secular warlords 51 allied warplanes 50 insurgents 50 Taleban militants 50 Bajaur tribal 50 insurgent safe havens 50 Taliban insurgency 50 battling resurgent Taliban 50 insurgent bastion 49 Shi'ite militiamen 49 Hizbullah guerrillas 49 militant strongholds 49 virulent insurgency 48 Taliban fighters 48 Cobra helicopter gunships 48 repel Georgian 48 lawless northwest 48 Taliban militants 48 insurgent hideout 48 semiautonomous tribal regions 48 PESHAWAR Pakistan Pakistani 48 militants 48 arming militias 47 arming Shiite militias 47 Dragon Strike 47 stubborn insurgency 47 Chora district 47 Shia militiamen 47 Bajaur tribal region 47 raging insurgency 47 neighboring Buner 47 Houthi fighters 47 militant safe havens 47 Waziristan tribal region 47 Taliban stronghold 47 Taliban 47 Islamist militants 46 Kajaki dam 46 Maj. Quentin Innis 46 Atta Mohammed 46 Insurgent violence 46 Afghanistan 46 Taliban strongholds 46 Islamic extremists 46 semiautonomous tribal 46 bordering Afghanistan 46 hardline Islamist Taliban 46 Taleban 46 insurgency 46 Mehsud stronghold 46 neighboring Nuevo Leon 46 Sunni insurgents 46 insurgent sanctuaries 46 Kurdish peshmerga fighters 46 Islamic militants 45 Islamist insurgents 45 KABUL Afghanistan Afghan 45 Bakwa 45 Fighting rages 45 Afghan 45 tribal regions 45 Euphrates valley 45 Soviet occupiers 45 suspected insurgent hideouts 45 Nakhonay 45 Pakistani Taliban 45 Shiite extremists 45 Konduz 45 Gen. Qassim Moussawi 44 lawless tribal belt 44 Shiite militiamen loyal 44 Roadside bombs kill 44 suspected militant hideouts 44 Afghan istan 44 Arghandab valley 44 Islamist hardliners 44 Shi'ite militias 44 SAN'A Yemen Yemen 44 army offensives 44 Insurgents ambushed 44 helicopter gunships attacked 44 semiautonomous tribal belt 44 hardline Islamist movement 44 insurgent hideouts 44 Waziristan tribal 44 militant stronghold 44 Salahuddin province north 44 Islamist extremists 44 Waziristan 44 Abu Sayyaf guerrillas 44 Council SICC 44 Bannu district 44 neighboring Helmand province 44 airstrikes