Riots in China’s ethnically divided Xinjiang region on Wednesday left 27 people dead, according to state media which said police opened fire on “knife-wielding mobs”.

The US has asked China to safeguard the rights of its Uighur minority in Xinjiang province and carry out a transparent probe into the latest incident of violence in which 21 people died.

A strong earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hit China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region on Friday, according to the China Earthquake Network Centre.

The temblor, which jolted the Lop coun

Over the past decade China has used the global 'war on terror' to jail thousands of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in the far-western and restive Xinjiang region, a minority rights group said Sunday.

Beijing

China today vowed to crush the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) militants trained in Pakistan even as the state media highlighted their role in fomenting militancy in the strategic Xinjiang prov

China on Monday blamed 'extremists' trained in terror camps in Pakistan for orchestrating attacks on civilians in the troubled Xinjiang province, where 20 people, including alleged militants, were