There is nothing to look at in the Syrian Desert.
Some 1,700 were thought to be spread in the Syrian Desert.
He and his mother were sent on deportation, a forced march leading to the Syrian desert.
To the west they drop off fast until you hit the Syrian Desert.
His grandmother, her first husband and their infant daughters were sent into the Syrian desert without food or water, to die.
It was as if some distant call from the Syrian desert of his forefathers could still be heard within him.
The population was deported to the Syrian desert, where many died, others fled to foreign countries and established communities.
To the east the warrior saw the first rays of dawn breaking over the Syrian desert.
Not even the nights had brought in a cooling breeze off the eastern edges of the Syrian desert.
Following the Armistice he was the first to take cars across the Syrian desert.