From Xinjiang to the Front Lines of Syria - Foreign Policy

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Excerpt From Xinjiang to the Front Lines of Syria How Uyghur militants were dragged into civil war. October 12, 2026, 5:00 AM By Emily Feng , a White House correspondent at NPR. A photograph of an overturned red car on a city street following unrest in the Uygur quarter of Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province seen on July 8, 2009. A car sits overturned following unrest in the Uyghur quarter of Urumqi in Xinjiang on July 8, 2009. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images Human Rights China In a dimly lit villa somewhere in the Idlib countryside, Choghtal, a slight, soft-spoken man, admitted that…