Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 50 Fighting rages 50 troop reinforcements 47 troop buildup 47 Fighting erupts 47 volatile Anbar Province 45 spiraling sectarian 45 Sectarian killings 45 gradual drawdown 45 Roadside bombs kill 44 troop surge 44 holiest Shiite shrine 44 foment sectarian violence 44 troop levels 44 troops 43 Salahuddin province north 43 quell sectarian 43 ethno sectarian violence 43 Sporadic fighting 43 al Anbar province 42 eventual drawdown 42 insurgent ambushes 42 troop deployment 42 calm 42 disarm militias 42 troop drawdowns 42 Qaeda fighters 42 forces 42 Operation Steel Curtain 42 Sectarian clashes 42 warring militias 42 Anbar Province 41 Roadside bombings 41 Insurgent violence 41 Swat valley northwest 41 helicopters clattered overhead 41 sectarian violence 41 Anbar Diyala 41 Anbar province 41 benchmarks unsatisfactory 41 Soldiers patrolled 41 calmer 41 Curfew lifted 41 Gen. Josef Blotz 41 al Zurufi 40 Gen. Qassim Moussawi 40 Iraq 40 Sporadic gunfire 40 sectarian bloodbath 40 Arrowhead Ripper 40 guerrilla strongholds 40 noncombat roles 40 Nouri Maliki 40 Mahecic 40 Operation Arrowhead Ripper 40 restive Anbar province 40 brokered ceasefire 40 Iraqization 40 Violence flares 40 troop redeployment 40 Insurgent deaths 40 General Raymond Odierno 40 Geopolitical tensions 40 troop drawdown 40 Kevin Bergner 39 Curfew imposed 39 al Amarah 39 troop pullouts 39 Karbala Najaf 39 Gen Petraeus 39 Sadr militiamen 39 Sunni triangle 39 Mehdi militia 39 Anbar 39 troop escalation 39 Redeploying 39 James Yonts 39 Muthanna province 39 virulent insurgency 39 Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver 39 Ali Dabbagh 39 liquidity buffers 39 combat brigades 39 Troop Levels 39 Qadisiyah 39 Baghdad 39 2nd Brigade 1st Armored 39 Insurgent attacks 39 Abizaid 39 polio vaccination campaign 39 minimizing civilian casualties 39 Armored vehicles 39 Dhi Qar 39 Shiite militiamen loyal 39 stabilize 39 sectarian reprisals 39 Kut southeast 39 resurgent Taliban militants 39 Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon 39 Joseph Fil 39 inIraq 39 Sectarian violence