Xinjiang’s strategic role in the Belt and Road Initiative has also led to demographic engineering, as Beijing resettles Han ...

a region in China. Growing Threats to National Security due to Terrorism People believe that the TIP has ties with other terrorist organizations, including the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM).

Xinjiang has been under control of China since it was annexed in 1949. Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist ...

The United States has announced new visa restrictions targeting foreign officials involved in the forced return of Uyghurs ...

(Gulchehra Hoja refers to East Turkestan as “our country” and China at large as “the mainland.”) The Uyghur children were being turned into Chinese. They suffered a great deal, she could see.

As the Taliban crack down on Uyghur fighters, complying with pressure from China, the Islamic State sees a recruiting ...

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 and is part of China.

Ambassador Yue Xiaoyong, China’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, and his delegation were received in Islamabad today, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. The meeting focused on the evolving geopolitical ...