She taught me our true history. Adel Abdulghufor is a Uyghur Muslim from Kashgar, in what he calls the country of East Turkestan. Officially, the region is called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ...

When American troops pulled out of Kabul in a hasty moved under the Biden administration in 2021, the military left behind a ...

Chinese Embassy slams Dutch parliament's China-related motions as 'gross interference in internal affairs' ...

Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist views that are a threat to security. They point to attacks in 2013 and ...

While fighting in Syria, the Turkestan Islamic Party has joined forces with global jihadist movements.

One spelling for one people! How about “Xinjiang Province” versus “East Turkestan”? “We all hate that ‘Xinjiang,’” says Gul, with a bite and a laugh. The name “Xinjiang” means ...

Central Asia has significant ethnic and religious minorities, and populations of Russian-speaking Slavs. Islamism threatens to upset that delicate balance—and with it, the élites who rule the ...