Do we still need to repeat and remind all that Israel is the sole democracy in a volatile, hostile region lacking any semblance of democracy?

Are you not afraid to approach so hostile a region?

But none of these republics can relish a future as a Christian or Muslim mini-state in a hostile region.

They are the victims of a war, who get displaced into a hostile tribal region where there is traditional rivalry over water and grazing rights.

Iapetus is the most actively hostile region.

The inkblot strategy is a military strategy for subduing a large hostile region with a relatively small military force.

Already, in the most hostile regions of Iraq, American troops have criticized Iraqi forces as being incompetent or in league with the insurgents.

In southeastern Iraq, a convoy of Japanese soldiers arrived as part of their country's first military deployment in a hostile region since 1945.

Avidius had learned much from his last venture into the hostile regions of Parthia.

Tis a hard and hostile region we know little about.