The corner where Heyitkah Mosque in China's restive Xinjiang region once hummed with life is now a concrete parking lot where all traces of the tall, domed building have been erased. While Muslims ...

* Friday prayers suspended at many Urumqi mosques * Thousands of troops and police remain on streets * Hu says maintaining stability paramount (For earlier stories, click on [ID:nXINJIANG]) By Chris ...

BEIJING — Hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims are staging a sit-in protest in China’s western region of Ningxia against government plans to demolish a huge new mosque, amid tightening curbs on Islam to ...

SHANGHAI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry denied claims from an Australian think-tank that it had destroyed thousands of mosques in its western Xinjiang region, and said there are over 24 ...

Steadily growing over the past few years, the Chinese government’s Sinicization campaigns have targeted a number of Muslim minority groups. These campaigns are perhaps most visible through the ...

When Anna was planning her first visit to Xinjiang in 2015, her friends were perplexed. "They couldn't understand why I'd visit a place that back then was considered one of China's most dangerous ...