At this time in 1991, nearly every Arab government was alongside the United States, with troops in the Saudi desert prepared to help evict Iraq from Kuwait.

Estimates vary, but 10 hit Israel before the Patriots arrived; about 25 veered off into the Israeli or Saudi desert or into the drink.

The mounting impatience of American troops stationed in the harsh Saudi desert is clearly becoming another factor the Administration will have to weigh as it balances the diplomatic and war options.

Call Forwarding The remotest stretch of Saudi desert now has this in common with midtown Manhattan: It sometimes seems that everybody in a car has a cellular phone.

The First and Second Marine Divisions are stationed across miles of Saudi desert near the Kuwaiti border.

Nearly 200,000 troops from at least 11 countries are now in the northern Saudi desert.

Today, four French journalists, lost and low on gas, were picked up by Marines in the northern Saudi desert and ordered out of the area.

"this is not the saudi desert, our laws forbid blo " "i claim that right!"

On Jan. 19, they say, two teams of Czech soldiers stationed nearly 15 miles apart in the northern Saudi desert began to detect low levels of nerve and mustard gas.

The PAM-D stage crashed in the sparsely populated Saudi Arabian desert.