Many have moved to the slums of nearby Karachi; others remain in desolate villages, stunned by the sight of empty canals.

They make their way to a desolate Italian village which happens to be in the path of a German advance.

Huma and the rest of his unit patrol through a desolate village.

They had trekked a few hundred yards and were about to enter the desolate village when they heard a dull roar behind them.

Assassins whose services paid for the food in the desolate little Korean village where crops did not grow and the fishing was poor.

"What are a beautiful Nada princess and a weird magic screen doing in our desolate village?"

She was banished (1977 again) to political exile in a desolate village where she built self-help clinics that still flourish.

In the desolate village of Qhurqul, Said Amir, 50, has brought his family back to a farmhouse made ramshackle by mortar fire.

An eccentric entrepreneur called Hondo Couch bought the desolate village and reinvented it as a tourist destination.