Fellow Uyghur fighters Mawlan Tarsoun Abdussamad and Abdulsalam Yasin Ahmad were given the rank of colonel, the party said in ...

Syria's new leadership has integrated foreign jihadists into its armed forces, including Uyghurs, Jordanians, and Turks, as ...

Thousands of Sunni Muslim foreigners joined Syria’s rebels early in 13-year civil war to fight against Bashar al-Assad and ...

Syrian government spokesperson did not reply to a request for comment on the thinking behind the appointments.

The new Syrian authorities are reported to have given some foreign Islamist fighters senior official posts in the country's ...

One controversial appointment is Chinese Uyghur Abdulaziz Dawood Khudaberdi, also known as Zahid, who was named ...

Throughout a year of conflict: religious inclusion, religious rights and religious diversity were defended around the world.

Heavy rainfall has caused widespread flooding in war-torn Gaza. Images of flooded tent camps for displaced Palestinians ...

Dahua and its subsidiaries say they have cancelled contracts for five projects with local governments in China’s Xinjiang ...

The Houthis, an Iranian-backed group based in Yemen, have launched repeated attacks despite the Israeli military’s retaliatory airstrikes. By Adam Rasgon Stepped up attacks by Russia are ...