Local residents enjoy their leisure time in the ancient city of Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 19, 2024. (Photo: Xinhua) Tourists visit a local residential building ...

In 1072, a medieval scholar named Mahmud Kashgari — from, as his name suggests, the Silk Road outpost of Kashgar — presented a landmark text to the Caliph of Baghdad. It was the first ever compendium ...

Staff members make nang, a local flatbread, at the ancient city of Kashgar scenic area in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 7, 2023. The ancient city of Kashgar, ...

The dust that now rises in Kashgar’s old city comes no longer from the sands of the Taklamakan desert, but from the debris of centuries-old houses demolished in a “residents’-resettlement” project.

Time is almost up for the old city of Kashgar. For the last three years, and over the silence of the international community, the din of bulldozers has reverberated across this ancient Silk Road hub.

KASHGAR, China, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 30, with the full-capacity grid connection of projects like the Huadian Kashgar Jiashi 300 MW Ecological Management Integrated Photovoltaic Power ...

Every morning Mohammed Gurdan rises early and climbs the rickety ladder to the fourth floor of his home in Kashgar's old city. There, as dawn breaks, he feeds and waters his 70 pigeons and waves them ...

A partly demolished building in Kashgar, an ancient Silk Road trading hub whose old city is being threatened by a Chinese-government redevelopment planAlessandro Digaetano / Polaris In 1072, a ...