The Xinjiang autonomous region in China's far west has had a long history of discord between the authorities and the indigenous ethnic Uighur population. The BBC sets out why. Who lives in Xinjiang?

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? Policemen detain a participant playing the role of an attacker during an anti-terrorism drill at a railway station in Yiwu, Zhejiang province ...

The existence of Mr. Lattimore’s ‘Winding Road* had not been realized by Western geographers and probably not by the Tientsin foreigners whose goods were cameled along it to Turkestan. It has grown up ...

In the aftermath of the deadly knife attack in Kunming Railway Station, both local authorities and the central government said that evidence suggested Xinjiang separatists were behind the violence. To ...

BEIJING: With explosions targeting civilians, assassinations, arson attacks, poisonings and al-Qaeda style video footages threatening dire actions, the "East Turkestan" separatists have long been ...

Don’t be quick to blame Internet commerce for the invasion of the Turkestan cockroaches in the Southwest. The insects are more likely the result of U.S. military entanglements in the Middle East and ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Also called 'the pearl of the Silk Road' Turkestan is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia. In recent times, the figure of the dervish Khwaja Ahmad Tasavi, an Islamic preacher and Sufi poet, whose ...

In October, a team of international researchers set out in search of a creature not observed since 1970. Scientists from Germany, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan embarked on an expedition to the Karakum ...

China's top security official has linked Monday's deadly crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. The BBC looks at what is known about the group. The East Turkestan ...