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

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). This growing ...

She taught me our true history. 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 ...

In the early hours of February 27, 2025, heavily secured transport vehicles transferred at least 40 detained Uyghurs from the ...

Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist views that are a threat to security. They point to attacks in 2013 and ...

European Cargo has also launched direct flights from East Turkestan to Cardiff and Bournemouth, transporting goods for e-commerce, including a "milestone flight" carrying 59 tons of packages to ...

And U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice had "a candid exchange" about ETIM during her recent visit to Beijing.

Central Asia has significant ethnic and religious minorities, and populations of Russian-speaking Slavs. Islamism threatens to upset that delicate balance—and with it, the élites who rule the ...