insurgency

Converse of object

• defeat: The US strategy to defeat the insurgency indicates that they no longer care about popular opinion among broad sectors of society.
• fight: Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces.
• fuel: With British support, and media self-censorship, the US continues to fuel the insurgency with its racist brutality.
• join: The greatest influx of outside fighters to join the insurgency has been from Algeria.
• say: Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the violent insurgency in his country will likely continue for years to come.
• support: Some individuals who support the insurgency are known to have traveled to Iraq in order to fight against coalition forces.

Adjective modifier

• Maoist: Central Asia is peppered with nasty outfits, like Nepal's Maoist insurgency, which literally bleed across borders.
• communist: During the communist insurgency of the fifties the infamous ' bamboo trail ' ran through the forest of Belum.
• armed: Afghanistan continues to face an armed insurgency, led by remnants of the country's former Taleban regime.
• Iraqi: Despite the enormity of the war's casualties, the Iraqi insurgency continues to grow stronger with every passing day.
• bloody: Bet you didn't know about the bloody insurgency that bought terror to germany after the war.
• violent: Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the violent insurgency in his country will likely continue for years to come.

Modifies a noun

• movement: Ultimately the state is still the final arbiter in the survival of an insurgency movement.
• operation: The Army holds a number of Saxon IS ( Patrol ) vehicle for service in counter insurgency operations.

Noun used with modifier

• guerrilla: Guerrilla insurgency was increasing in Britain's most profitable colony, Malaysia.
• separatist: In Assam a separatist insurgency killed hundreds; so have tribal clashes in other states.
• class: For the next three years its chief concern was riding the rising storm of working class insurgency.
• peasant: Third Image: New faces of peasant insurgency at the end of the Twentieth Century.

Possessives

• country: Iraq's Sunni minority was dominant under Saddam and is believed to make up the backbone of the country's insurgency.

Preposition: in

• north: Its southern neighbor, Uganda has had an insurgency in the north for 18 years.