insurgent

Converse of subject

kill: An Iraqi policeman holds aloft the body of a child killed by insurgents in the Shia holy city of Najaf.

Converse of object

• defeat: How are some ways that you are measuring progress in defeating insurgents in Iraq?
• kill: In Iraq, our forces try to kill insurgents who mainly want our forces to leave.
• fight: Amputees have star roles in war games, like densely plotted, big-budget movie Army fights insurgents in fictitious town.
• capture: In terms of capturing insurgents the figures are less convincing.
• arm: The Ministry of Defense said the patrol came under attack from insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and a heavy machine gun.
• say: He also said the insurgents have failed to " force a mass withdrawal by our allies.

Adjective modifier

• Maoist: Soldiers were everywhere, guarding the approaches to Everest, one of the few parts of Nepal not yet subject to the Maoist insurgents.
• suspected: South of Baghdad, US and Iraqi forces launched raids killing 17 suspected insurgents and arresting 32 suspects.
• Iraqi: Actions of violence include the capture of seven Iraqi soldiers by Iraqi insurgents, near Baghdad on Thursday.
• Kurdish: This was part of a series of measures undertaken by Iraq to punish Kurdish insurgents for allying with Iran during the war.
• Islamic: Last spring Islamic insurgents from Afghanistan battled with Kyrgyz security forces, and President Askar Akayev warned of worse to come this year.
• communist: These figures include an estimated 40,000 deaths in the conflict with communist insurgents between 1972 and 1994.

Modifies a noun

• stronghold: The violence across Iraq, in the last week, is apparently in response to the assault on the insurgent stronghold, Fallujah.
• fighter: The U.S. military says coalition forces in Afghanistan killed an estimated 15 insurgent fighters in a night-time clash.
• attack: During 2001 a major expansion was initiated to meet the threat from ethnic Albanian insurgent attacks in the north of the country.
• army: Henry VII himself had to take the field at Blackheath, Kent, where the Cornish insurgent army arrived in June.
• violence: In London for talks on Iran, the US Secretary of State said the result could reduce insurgent violence.
• threat: The over six million Iraqis who went out to vote in 2004, despite insurgent threats attest to this fact.

Noun used with modifier

islamist: A new development is the emergence of home-grown Islamist insurgents.