The presence of an acclaimed Uighur artist among those on the missing Malyasian airliner has fueled speculation about terrorism—prompting protests from the Uighur diaspora.
NATO maneuvers in the Black Sea—just across from Crimea—come as Ukrainian lawmakers threaten to seek nuclear weapons if the West does not act against Russia.
Authorities in Kunming, Yunnan province, say a deadly mass knife attack at the city's main rail station was "orchestrated by Xinjiang separatist forces."
Eleven ethnic Uighurs were killed in what China's state news agency Xinhua called a "terrorist attack" in Xinjiang—and what Uighur exiles hailed as an act of "resistance."
A court in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region handed down prison terms to six herders who protested the seizure of local grazing land by a forestry company.
Detained Uighur scholar and activist Ilham Tohti was accused by Chinese authorities of "separatism," and formal charges against him are expected imminently.
A Beijing court sentenced legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong to four years in prison on the charge of "gathering a crowd to disturb public order."
Three mysterious blazes at historic Tibetan monasteries across western China in as many months have sparked speculation about a campaign of arson attacks.
The US Department of Defense announced that the last three Uighur Muslim detainees were transferred to Slovakia from the Guantánamo Bay military prison.
A near confrontation between Chinese and US aircraft over disputed East China Sea gasfields comes amid major joint US-Japanese naval maneuvers off Okinawa.
A Tibetan monk in China’s Sichuan province was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after he led a public prayer session for self-immolation martyrs.
As another deadly clash is reported from Xinjiang, Shanghai journalist Yang Haipeng has started donning a Uighur skullcap at security checkpoints as a gesture of solidarity.
