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  2. Syrian Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Syrian Desert (Arabic: بادية الشام Bādiyat Ash-Shām), also known as the North Arabian Desert, [1] the Jordanian steppe, or the Badiya, [2] is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe, covering about 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles) of West Asia, including parts of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq.

  3. Geography of Syria - Wikipedia

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    The eastern slopes have little rainfall and vegetation and merge eventually with the desert. Slinfah, located in the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range. In the southwest, the lofty Mount Hermon (Jabal ash Shaykh), also on the border between Syria and Lebanon, descends to the Hawran Plateau that receives rain-bearing winds from the Mediterranean. All ...

  4. List of deserts - Wikipedia

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    Indus Valley Desert – a desert located in Pakistan; Kharan desert – a desert located in Pakistan; Syrian desert – a desert located in Syria, Jordan and Iraq; Thal Desert – a desert in Pakistan; Thar Desert – a desert in India and Pakistan Gobi in Mongolia. Cholistan Desert – a desert in Pakistan; Dasht-e-Margo – a desert in ...

  5. List of deserts by area - Wikipedia

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    Location [note 1] Nation(s) 1: Antarctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra ... Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Syria: 10: Great Basin Desert: Cold winter: 492,098 [5]

  6. Syria - Wikipedia

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    Syria, [d] officially the ... [14] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. ... to arid desert in the east. The country consists ...

  7. Al-Hammad - Wikipedia

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    Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia Al-Hammad ( Arabic : بادية الحماد , romanized : Bādiyat al-Hammad ) is a stony plateau straddling the Syrian and Arabian Deserts . It extends northwards from northern Saudi Arabia through eastern Jordan to the southeastern region of Syria and western Iraq .

  8. 21 Syrian pro-government militiamen killed in overnight ... - AOL

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    The Islamic State group ambushed pro-government militiamen in an overnight attack in eastern Syria, killing at least 21 fighters, pro-government media and an opposition war monitor said Wednesday.

  9. Homs - Wikipedia

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    Homs, the governorate's capital, is located in central western Syria, ... (Syrian Desert) and it includes exhibitions and concerts between Homs and Palmyra.