Syrian officials said that under the plan, some 3,500 foreign fighters, mainly Uyghurs from China and neighboring countries, ...

Syria is able to proceed because it enjoys increased support from the US, as well as from Turkey and Qatar, both US allies.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) used social media to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, connecting its legacy to ...

China’s persecution of Uyghurs prompted the U.S. to ban Xinjiang imports. China found a way around it — by shipping more ...

State labor programs were aimed at lifting one of the nation’s poorest regions out of poverty, but they have also served as a ...

China has been moving Uyghur Muslims to factories outside of the Xinjiang region in order to skirt U.S. restrictions on ...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is chancellor's professor of history at University of California, Irvine and the author of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, a short ...

Uyghurs Detained in Thailand Say They Face Deportation and Persecution in China BANGKOK (AP) — A group of Uyghur men who were detained in Thailand over a decade ago say that the Thai government ...

BANGKOK — A group of Uyghur men who were detained in Thailand over a decade ago say the Thai government is preparing to deport them to China, alarming activists and family members who say the ...

"The Uyghurs are a Turkic, majority Muslim ethnicity native to China's far west Xinjiang region. After decades of conflict with Beijing over discrimination and suppression of their cultural ...