However, a smaller number of countries account for the vast majority of all documented physical attacks on dissidents, with ...

China has asserted its international right to take on insurgents threatening the lives of its citizens after an attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group ( ISIS) killed a Chinese citizen in ...

The plight of 48 Uyghur detainees in Thailand has drawn international scrutiny as the group’s hunger strike protesting their possible return to China stretches into day 15 with the U.S. State ...

In 1944, the Uighurs declared Xinjiang’s independence, renaming it East Turkestan—a name that Uighurs still use. But when Mao Tse-tung’s Communists took power in 1949, they regained control ...

A generation ago, men of divergent personal appearance, political experience, and cultural inheritance ascended to political leadership in the Third World and decided to embrace a transcendent ...

Chinese forces largely defeated the Uyghur separatist group known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) a decade ago in Xinjiang but its offshoot, the Turkestan Islamic Party, continues to ...

The presence of Uyghur militant groups, such as the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), highlights Beijing’s fears of instability spilling into its Xinjiang region. For decades, TIP and its affiliate, the ...

The East Turkistan Government in Exile urges Ireland to condemn China's Xinjiang actions and support East Turkistan's quest ...

Guo stated that he hopes the Swiss side will fully recognize the importance and sensitivity of Xizang- and Xinjiang-related issues, genuinely respect China's core interests and major concerns ...