Syrian Desert

The Armenian Genocide, the first of the 20th Century, included massacres, deportations, and death marches where hundreds of thousands were herded into the Syrian Desert to die of thirst and starvation.

Rep. John Sarbanes: Why I Support Recognition of the Armenian Genocide Rep. John Sarbanes 2010

The Armenian Genocide, the first of the 20th Century, included massacres, deportations, and death marches where hundreds of thousands were herded into the Syrian Desert to die of thirst and starvation.

Rep. John Sarbanes: Why I Support Recognition of the Armenian Genocide Rep. John Sarbanes 2010

They built a reactor in the Syrian Desert very much like their own reactor for producing plutonium for nuclear weapons.

Cheney calls Democrats soft on national security and slams Obama’s politicized CIA probe - California_Yankee’s blog - RedState 2009

And surely it is of note that Erdogan and many other Turks furiously deny that the mass killings, of more than a million Christian Armenians, by Muslim Turks, with Muslim Kurds joining in, and later, Muslim Arabs attacking the suriving stragglers in the Syrian Desert, constitutes a 'genocide.'

OPEN THREAD 2009

I will never forget riding across the Syrian Desert in a jeep driven by Queen Noor of Jordan, just the two of us, visiting Palestinian-refugee camps, one week before the Gulf War, in 1991.

What a Swell Party He Wrote Dunne, Dominick 2008

Here, the northern boundary is delineated by the Anti-Taurus Mountains and the southern boundary is determined by the Syrian Desert.

Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests 2008

If I understand him correctly, he sees both of these languages as originating in the Syrian Desert or parts northeast of Canaan.

Syriac, Aramaic, and Mandaic: Learn One Language, Three Dialects, For The Price Of Five Alphabets James F. McGrath 2008

All this is supportive of his theory that the Israelites came into Canaan from "the steppes of Transjordan and possibly the Syrian Desert."

Syriac, Aramaic, and Mandaic: Learn One Language, Three Dialects, For The Price Of Five Alphabets James F. McGrath 2008

My grandmother vividly remembered watching her mother's body buried in the Syrian Desert.

The "Genocide Olympics" 2007

The Syrian Desert facility that Israel apparently attacked in a shadowy Sept. 6 raid — and that some administration officials believe was a secret nuclear reactor — might be several years old.

A New Intelligence Failure? 2007