China has staged a fresh display of military might in its western Xinjiang region, sending more than 10,000 armed police, columns of armored vehicles and helicopters rumbling through the regional ...

The city reported about 100 new cases each of the past two days. 3 Guards wearing hazmat suits are lined up blocking protestors from walking further down a street in Xinjiang, China.

A “wartime” state has been declared in the capital of Xinjiang, home to China’s persecuted Muslim-majority Uyghur ethnic group, as authorities implement strict and sweeping measures to stem ...

The capital of China's restless far western region of Xinjiang, hit by ethnic riots last year in which about 200 died, faces a long struggle to maintain stability, its mayor said in comments ...

Xinjiang, the largest and most ... Capital: Urumqi. Area: 1,664,897 sq km. Population: ... 2009 - Clashes between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region's main city Urumqi, in which 200 people died ...

Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region opened up some neighbourhoods in the capital Urumqi on Saturday after residents held extraordinary late-night demonstrations against the city's "zero ...

The next month, hundreds of Uyghurs took to the streets of Xinjiang’s capital city, Ürümqi, waving Chinese flags and chanting “Uyghur”—a call to be seen by the country’s leadership.

Protests even punctured Beijing, the country's capital, ... and their elder son Ilyas Eli were among those detained in 2017 in the jade-trading city of Hotan, in southern Xinjiang.

URUMQI -- Dirty, smelly, unpleasant: These established perceptions of public toilets in urban Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, are gradually becoming a thing of the past ...

Officials said that the fire had started just before 8pm on Thursday on the 15th floor of a high-rise apartment complex in Urumqi, the capital of the western Xinjiang region.

Chinese commenters on social media shared reports and footage of the blaze that killed 10 people and injured nine in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, demanding to know if Covid restrictions had ...

Mosques in riot-hit Urumqi have been ordered to stay closed for Friday prayers in the wake of ethnic violence that left 156 dead, a Chinese official said, and another city in Xinjiang province has ...