Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 55 Sporadic fighting 51 bloodshed 49 Escalating violence 48 sectarian violence 47 sectarian strife 46 violence 46 civil strife 46 sectarian warfare 46 Sporadic violence 46 sectarian killings 45 Sunni Muslim 45 raging insurgency 45 unrest 44 strife 44 despotic rule 44 sectarian bloodshed 44 sectarian cleansing 43 turmoil 43 Islamic militancy 43 sectarian tensions 43 sectarian tension 42 sectarian bloodletting 42 strife torn 42 religious extremism 42 mayhem 42 carnage 42 factional fighting 42 Islamist militants 42 lawlessness 42 sectarian divisions 41 Sporadic clashes 41 Saddam loyalists 41 sectarianism 41 stubborn insurgency 41 Deadly clashes 41 hostilities 41 instability 41 Sectarian violence 41 Sporadic gunfire 41 Shi'ite Muslims 41 Baathist regime 41 Islamist insurgents 41 violence wracked 40 flareups 40 factional clashes 40 antigovernment protests 40 Strong aftershocks 40 revered Shiite cleric 40 locust invasion 40 insurgency 40 sectarian clashes 40 Shiite Muslims 40 Sunni heartland 40 Prime Minister Fuad Siniora 40 internal rifts 40 sectarian 40 Nahr Al 40 Sunni 40 relative lull 39 Nahr el Bared refugee 39 Ashraf Qazi 39 Shi'ite Muslim 39 retaliatory attacks 39 restive Anbar province 39 anarchy 39 extremism 39 mortar barrages 39 sectarian slaughter 39 unspeakable horrors 39 nuclear ambitions 39 Shiite theocracy 39 deadly cholera epidemic 39 reprisal killings 39 Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari 38 predominantly Sunni 38 bloodletting 38 contagion spreading 38 rocket barrages 38 spokesman Laith Kubba 38 sectarian reprisal killings 38 Shiite 38 secular warlords 38 Islamist extremists 38 Ba'athist regime 38 Islamic fundamentalism 38 Shiites 38 devastation 38 Islamist radicals 38 tat killings 38 reprisal attacks 38 Islamic militants 38 humanitarian catastrophe 38 feuding factions 38 Shiite Muslim 38 internal strife 38 Shi'as 38 infighting 38 killings 38 Shi'ite militia 38 Palestinian territories 38 geopolitical uncertainty