Sources: NBC News The Australian
Authorities in China's Xinjiang region sentence nine people for up to 14 years for terrorism offences. 2014-06-26
The People's Republic of China sentences four people to death in the Xinjiang region following threats to crack down on terrorism in the far-western region. 2011-09-15
Meng Jianzhu, the Minister for Public Security in the People's Republic of China, orders a clampdown in Xinjiang following recent unrest. 2011-08-5
At least 11 people, including 5 suspects, are killed and 15 others are injured on Sunday's violence in China's Xinjiang region, raising the death toll to 20 over the weekend attacks in Kashgar. 2011-08-1
Rioting at a police station in Hotan in the Xinjiang region of western China kills at least four people. 2011-07-18
China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan conduct an anti-terror drill in the restive Xinjiang region of western China. 2011-05-7
The People's Republic of China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan hold an antiterrorism drill in Xinjiang. 2011-05-6
Seven people are killed and fourteen injured in a bomb attack in China's Xinjiang province. Although the region has recently been embroiled in violence including Muslim separatists and majority Han Chinese, the attack is being investigated as a criminal case. 2010-08-19
China sentences an Uyghur journalist who spoke to foreign media after riots in Xinjiang last year to 15 years imprisonment. 2010-07-23
China announces it has broken up what it describes as a terrorist ring in Xinjiang in the west of the country. 2010-06-24