U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria's new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior ...

Trump may believe that Syria is “not our fight,” but the competition with China is very much ours and will undoubtedly be a ...

The Syrian conflict presents a pivotal opportunity for China to exhibit its readiness to assume a true global leadership role ...

Prominent Uighur, Jordanian, and Turkish foreign fighters given military ranks, as Islamist rebel group at core of de facto ...

A S REBELS STORMED across Syria late last year, eventually toppling the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, some were accompanied by fighters from a foreign militant organisation—one with ambitions ...

This may seem a ridiculous juxtaposition, but it illustrates precisely where Beijing’s strategic priorities lie. It’s not that Syria is unimportant to China. However, performative politics ...

The Turkistan Islamic Party says its main mission to ‘liberate the Muslims of East Turkistan from the Chinese occupation’ ...

Beijing, a long-term supporter of Assad, has closely monitored the ramifications of its overall Middle-East strategy and is expected to carefully manage relations with the new Syrian government ...

Despite China’s geographical distance from the conflict, analysts warned that the rebel takeover in Syria should be raising alarm bells in Beijing. Jonathan Ping from Bond University ...

China, which had forged close ties with Assad but did not play a military role in the conflict, has otherwise adopted a relatively cautious approach to the developments in Syria. Beijing's not ...

But China’s broader geopolitical strategy rests on sustaining a network of autocratic regimes such as Syria, Iran ... of one of them calls into question Beijing’s underlying assumptions.