arid region

The area is known as Rukban, a vast arid region that once saw a refugee camp spring up on the Syrian side over the rise of the Islamic State group’s so-called caliphate in 2014.

It has also been called the world’s “third eye,” partly because of its curved shape, but also for its spiritual power as a source of life in an otherwise arid region.

California ,and Arizona show significant land subsidence due to the arid region's reliance on groundwater to irrigate crops.

Casana’s team have identified forts far to the east of the Strata Diocletiana, near the Iraqi city of Mosul on the Tigris River; far to the west, around the Syrian city of Aleppo; and notably in the west of Syria’s Jazira region, an extremely arid region with few sources of surface water.

Many just want to feel secure as Islamic extremists expand their range in the Sahel, the arid region south of the Sahara Desert.