News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 2 months ago
East Turkestan is the name used by Al-Qaeda for China's Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang. "Let our Muslim brothers in Turkestan know that there is no way for salvation and that there is no way to lift oppression and injustice but with truthful...
News Source: NewKerala
| 2 months ago
Muslims with historical and linguistic ties to the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Uighurs live in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, which Islamists call East Turkistan. According to the Washington-based terrorism monitoring group IntelCenter,...
News Source: AKI
| 2 months ago
A leading Al-Qaeda militant on Wednesday called on Muslims worldwide to defend Uighurs in China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang. He told Uighurs to prepare for a holy war or Jihad and urged a "vast media campaign" to raise awareness of...
News Source: Reuters
| 2 months ago
A prominent al Qaeda militant urged Uighurs in Xianjiang to make serious preparations for a holy war against "oppressive" China and called on fellow Muslims to offer support. Abu Yahya al-Libi, in a video posted on an Islamist website on Wednesday,...