The Uyghurs who fought en masse in Syria announce a new clash – now in China

The Uighur militant group that helped topple the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has vowed to take the fight to China.

The Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) in a video published on December 8, the day of the fall of the regime in Syria, sent threats to Beijing.

The video shows fighters with automatic weapons and military uniforms, he writes thetelegraph.

"Now we are here in Syria, in all these cities, we are fighting for Allah and we will continue to do so in our Urumqi, Aksu and Kashgar in the future," said a masked man, listing the cities in the Xinjiang region of China where the Uighurs are from.

"We will expel the Chinese infidels," he added.

Using the Uyghurs' preferred name for their homeland, he added that "we fought in Homs, in Idlib and we will continue to fight in East Turkestan. Allah has given us victory here. Give us victory in our country too".

1. He's an Uzbek
2. Yes, Uyghurs did play a part in the liberation of Syria.
3. Uyghurs are not terrorists and never have been, the Chinese Communists are the real terrorists.
4. Below is a video of actual Uyghur Mujahideen in Syria. https://t.co/nbdEuxOdtL pic.twitter.com/GwdBKmLkep

— Arslan Hidayat December 8, 2024

TIP has been present in Syria for more than a decade as members fled to the Middle East to escape Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, a Muslim-majority minority. Its fighters have joined the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which has led a rebel offensive from northwestern Syria.

TIP recently launched an unusual promotional campaign, featuring its leader, Abu Muhammed alongside battalions. A video shows TIP fighters fighting Assad's forces in late November 2024, shortly after the start of the rebel offensive. Another video shows their fighters entering Damascus in tanks, waving flags with blue crescents and stars, the group's symbols.

According to the video claims, on December 10 and 11, TIP fighters entered the strategic port cities of Latakia and Tartus, along the Syrian coast, which were previously a base for Russian forces.

"Many groups united against us. Russia, Iran, Hezbollah came – with powerful weapons and different soldiers,” one fighter said in a December 8 video. "But each time, with Allah as witness, we did not back down. With the help of Allah, we fought and got here. We never showed weakness or fear."

Otherwise, the group founded in the 1990s with a previous presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has repeatedly emphasized its priority: Uighur independence. Its goal is "the liberation of the Muslims of East Turkistan from the Chinese occupation". /Telegraph/

Video of Turkestan Islamic Party capturing Souran "Allahu Akbar the taghut has fled" pic.twitter.com/QNMWrUDqDL

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