A new jihadist group made up of Chinese and Palestinians is born
There is a blood red thread that connects Syria to China passing through Palestine. A thread that winds through mountainous landscapes of the province of Idlib, continues among the Palestinian refugee camps, to reach the northern region of Xinjiang. The Uyghurs live here, a Turkic ethnic group of Islamic religion, always in open conflict with the Beijing regime, accused of racial and religious persecution.
Since the Syrian conflict began thousands of Chinese Muslims they decided to abandon their lands (which they call East Turkestan) to follow the call of international jihadism. In Syria they formed a battalion, Katibat al-Ghuraba al Turkistan (KGT), made up almost entirely of Chinese. Unlike other foreign jihadists, Uyghurs don't move alone, but they bring their wives and children with them. During the conflict they formed a separate unit within the Islamist galaxy. Often allied with Al-Qaeda and similar, other times they instead preferred to act in concert with the Islamic State. Those who have had the opportunity to meet them in recent years have described them as an extremely closed group in which almost no one speaks the Arabic language. Abu Darda al-Shami, member of the extremist group Jund al-Aqsa, he declared that the Uighurs “fight like lions in land offensives. I can say this with certainty after having fought with them in many battles in the North".
Very active on social media, the KGT men say they are ready to fight to the death and in all likelihood they will keep this promise since they will not be able to return to their homeland alive. In recent months it has been the Uyghurs who have kept the morale of all the rebel forces entrenched in Idlib high, the Chinese are the first to enter the fray and the last to retreat. Slowly, but in an inexorable way, the KGT was able to establish itself among the ranks of the jihadist groups active in Syria as the real leader of the last pocket of rebel resistance in Idlib. Read More

Reporting of F.F.



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