No One's Sure Why 21 People Died in Knife and Arson Attack

China's muslim borderline. Now R680.00 Washington - The leader of the exiled Uighur community from China's northwestern Xinjiang region said on Friday that thousands of people may have died in violence in recent days. Rebiya Kadeer, the ...

KOROR, Palau --- Ahmat Abdulahad can't help but laugh at the irony of his predicament. He and five other Chinese Muslims released from America's Guantanamo military prison in 2009 thought they would be living on this remote island for a few months, ...

China's People's Liberation Army has inducted 20 Uighur Muslim women from the Xinjiang region bordering Pakistan to serve in the country's navy.

CAIRO - In a ruling seen as example of stifling religious freedoms in China, two dozen Uighur Muslims have been sentenced up to life in prison on charges of separatism and plots to carry out jihad in the restive far western (more) CAIRO - In a ...

A Muslim Uighur woman begs as armed Chinese paramilitary police march past on a street in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, July 5, 2010, the first anniversary of deadly unrest that laid bare deep-seated ethnic tensions

According to official figures Xinjiang is 46 percent Uighur -- who speak a Turkic language and are mostly Muslim -- and 39 percent Han Chinese, after millions moved to the area in recent decades. Relations between them are often tense and riots ...

Taipei: A controversial figure accused by China of inciting violence in the ethnically divided Xinjiang region, where clashes with police this week saw 21 people killed, arrived in Taiwan today in a visit likely to irk Beijing. Dilshat Rexit, a ...

_ If late bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev attacked the Boston Marathon with an aim to draw attention to Muslim suffering in Chechnya, his ancestral homeland, he succeeded. Or if, as alleged by some who knew him, he was angered by U.S. military ...

Washington: The US has asked China to safeguard the rights of its Uighur minority in Xinjiang province and carry out a transparent probe into the latest incident of violence in which 21 people died. "We are deeply concerned by the reports of violent ...