Kyrgyzstan

A scuffle broke out in eastern Kyrgyzstan on Monday between hundreds of angry local residents and Chinese construction workers at a gold mine operated by a Chinese corporation.

The UK Guardian reported on Tuesday that border police in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, home of the oppressed Uighur Muslims, are installing secret surveillance apps on the smartphones of travelers who enter the region and raiding those phones for personal information.

China’s Global Times on Monday sang the praises of the Xinjiang border guards, a force augmented by what Western media would describe as “militia” or “vigilantes” and tasked with making sure Muslims do not escape from the surveillance-state province where they have been quarantined.

The Chinese government invited representatives from 12 neighboring, mostly Muslim-majority countries this week to tour some of the internment camps built in western Xinjiang province to indoctrinate, torture, and exploit the labor of Chinese Muslims.

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian Boeing 707 cargo plane coming from Kyrgyzstan crashed on Monday while trying to land west of Iran’s capital, state media reported, with an emergency official saying only one person of the 16 on board was known to have survived.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan proposed at a summit in Kyrgyzstan on Monday that Middle East and Central Asian countries should stop trading in the U.S. dollar and instead use their domestic currencies.

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The only LGBT club in majority-Muslim nation Kyrgyzstan has closed following an increase in anti-LGBT abuse.

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The suspected perpetrator of a suicide bombing in a St Petersburg subway station Monday had ties to radical Islamist groups, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. The Interfax report drew on a law enforcement source who also said that

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak told a national television outlet that the yet-unnamed jihadi responsible for killing dozens at Istanbul’s Reina nightclub on New Year’s Eve is likely a member of the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority, which makes its home in China and central Asia.

Turkish authorities appear to know who the prime suspect in the Istanbul nightclub massacre is, releasing both photographs and biographical information, although they seem curiously reluctant to state his name.

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People who wear Islamic clothing such as a burqa are more likely to become radicalised and plot terror attacks, the President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev has said. His remarks, which have provoked widespread criticism, were offered as part of a

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A Scottish goldmine worker who compared Kyrgyzstan’s national dish to a horse’s penis is to be deported from the country. Michael McFeat was facing up to five years in prison under race hate laws after a remark on Facebook about

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The nation of Kyrgyzstan has escalated its efforts in fighting radical Islam with the arrest of Rashot Kamalov, a popular Imam who law enforcement say has allegedly been attempting to convince Kyrgyz youth to join the jihad in Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State.