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Syrian Desert

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noun

  1. a desert in N Saudi Arabia, SE Syria, W Iraq, and NE Jordan. About 125,000 sq. mi. (323,750 sq. km).


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About 100 miles west of Baghdad in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, the base sits on the Syrian Desert.

From Time ● Jan. 5, 2015

Toughest stretch was across the Syrian Desert where blinding sandstorms sometimes rise 20,000 ft. and huge kitebirds menace aerial navigation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first party of white men to cross the Syrian Desert after the War was Dr. Breasted's.

From Time Magazine Archive

In other directions, the city is surrounded by the Badiya as-Sham, the great Syrian Desert, where, for seven months of the year, the relentless sun becomes a blinding enemy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The road thither lies through a part of the Syrian Desert belonging to the Aneyzeh tribe, who are now supposed to be in league with the Druses, against the Government.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

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