The young Isis bride thought of her home far away, and all that it meant to her. As she did so she raised an imaginary pistol to her temple and pulled the trigger. “They will kill me and my children if I go back there,” she said, her eyes staring from a black veil. Afifa Suleiman — an alias — is a 23-year-old ethnic Uighur from Xinjiang, the autonomous region in western China. Eventually she and her family reached Turkey, a hub for displaced Uighurs, and settled…

Source: The Times December 16, 2017 00:03 UTC