Or whether there were a lot of people standing around in a normally desolate area.

"It was a desolate area," he says of a neighboring market town.

Residents, however, say it is highly unlikely that 10 people would have even passed through such a desolate area.

But by the time they made their way to this desolate area, it would be too late.

It is a desolate area, difficult to make one's way through, a perfect place to hide.

In other words, no making use of the desolate area for developing weapons.

Nothing seemed to live in these desolate areas, although they had a kaleidoscopic beauty.

But in large urban or desolate rural areas, where dropout rates are higher, they often don't.

The desolate area means it's not recommended to walk around here at night.

Clearly, though, the fighters had no such restrictions, not here, in this desolate area of space.