Syria is able to proceed because it enjoys increased support from the US, as well as from Turkey and Qatar, both US allies.

Syrian officials said that under the plan, some 3,500 foreign fighters, mainly Uyghurs from China and neighboring countries, ...

China has been moving Uyghur Muslims to factories outside of the Xinjiang region in order to skirt U.S. restrictions on ...

State labor programs were aimed at lifting one of the nation’s poorest regions out of poverty, but they have also served as a ...

China’s persecution of Uyghurs prompted the U.S. to ban Xinjiang imports. China found a way around it — by shipping more ...

BANGKOK — A group of Uyghur men who were detained in Thailand over a decade ago say the Thai government is preparing to deport them to China, alarming activists and family members who say the ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Three Uyghur men who spent over a decade in Thai detention were resettled in Canada in April, Thai lawmakers and activists confirmed, months after Thailand drew international ...

Over 300 Uyghurs fleeing China were detained in 2014 by Thai authorities near the Malaysian border. In 2015, Thailand deported 109 detainees to China against their will, prompting an international ...

The three made their way to Canada during Thailand's Songkran festival weekend in April, said Kannavee Suebsang, a lawmaker who has advocated on behalf of the Uyghurs, and Chalida Tajaroensuk ...

"The Uyghurs are a Turkic, majority Muslim ethnicity native to China's far west Xinjiang region. After decades of conflict with Beijing over discrimination and suppression of their cultural ...