(Al Arabiya) Mohanad Hage Ali - Fighters from China's Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang province are in Syria. A year ago, there were hundreds of Uighur fighters in Syria, belonging to the Al-Nusra Front-allied Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP). Today, according to several sources, there are several thousand Uighur fighters. The Uighur militants reportedly moved into Syria following a Chinese-backed Pakistani campaign against their bases on the borders with Afghanistan.
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