China urges U.S. to condemn Xinjiang "terrorism"

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.

Chinese authorities are accusing terrorists of setting a trap to kill police officers during the latest clashes in the western Xinjiang region. Local government officials say 21 people were killed in the clashes in western Xinjiang, which is home to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty ethnic Uighurs in China`s far western region of Xinjiang have been given sentences including life terms following conviction on charges related to terrorism and separatism, according to Chinese state media reports.

Culture, clashes and crackdowns in restive Xinjiang on display at Beijing museum, inciting rare public discourse. China's predominantly Muslim Xinjiang province has long been riven by ethnic tension and unrest [AFP] Beijing, China - Three years ...

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.

Almost 20 ethnic Uighurs face life imprisonment verdicts on charges of carrying out jihad in China's unstable Xinjiang region Related Chinese courts have sentenced 20 people to up to life in jail on charges of separatism and plotting to carry out ...

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 ...