(AP) Christopher Bodeen - Chinese Muslim separatists from the northwest region of Xinjiang are battling Syrian government forces alongside al-Qaeda, the official Chinese newspaper Global Times reported Monday. Radicals among China's ethnic Turkic Uighur minority have been traveling to Syria since May to join the fighting. The report singled out two groups as funneling fighters to Syria: the East Turkistan Islamic Movement and the East Turkestan Education and Solidarity Association based in Turkey.
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