Uighurs in Syria: Soldiers Without Homeland
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It is hardly known, but when the leader Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, Uyghurs from China also fought with them. At home, they are persecuted as a minority – what happens now with these fighters? Hardly known was that in Idlib, the retreat area of Islamist militias in northern Syria, there were 15,000 Uyghurs from the Chinese province of Xinjiang. A brigade of several thousand combatants of this origin also participated in the advance of Damasc…
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