Syrian Desert
Americannoun
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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
The first party of white men to cross the Syrian Desert after the War was Dr. Breasted's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out over the Syrian Desert last week flew 24 British Royal Air Force planes, fanwise, in quest of something.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Towards night we descended from the hills upon the Plain of Keftin, which stretches south-westward from Aleppo, till the mountain-streams which fertilize it are dried up, when it is merged into the Syrian Desert.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard
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