China's Far West provinces (inc. Tibet)

[davidbfpo]

Now this is interesting, notably the numbers involved and the report starts with:

A few months ago, in a remote town in Idlib province, northern Syria, an unusual foreign militant presence alarmed Syrian locals. The fighters were reportedly of the Muslim Uighur minority from Xinjiang province in Western China. For a population which has grown used to the multinational nature of the militancy, two aspects of these new fighters struck them: their large numbers and their ethnicity. A year ago, they were barely hundreds of Uighur fighters, belonging to the Al-Nusra Front-allied Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP). Today, according to several sources in the province, there are a few thousand Uighur fighters, and many of them arrived with their families after a long and treacherous journey from China and central Asia.

Link:http://english.alarabiya.net/en/pers...fighters-.html

From a "lurker":

Some interesting tidbits in here, but also gross errata. that frustrating mix...