Thailand-Cambodia Conflict Live Updates: In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), a Cambodian family sit on a tractor as they flee form their home in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AKP via AP)
Thailand-Cambodia Conflict Today News Live Updates: Thailand on Monday said that it launched airstrikes into Cambodia as fighting broke out between the two countries along the disputed border as both sides accused each other of breaking a ceasefire signed in October, brokered by US President Donald Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim which halted the conflict. At least one Thai soldier has died and three Cambodian civilians have been injured in the recent strikes, Reuters reported. The longstanding border dispute erupted into a five days of war in July that killed 48 people and over 300,000 were temporarily displaced.
Fighting follows exchange of fire: The ceasefire was threatened in November when Thai army personnel were injured by landmines and the Thailand administration announced it was “indefinitely suspending” the implementation of the peace agreement signed with Cambodia in Kuala Lumpur in October. Both sides have been accusing each other of breaking the ceasefire. Trump has said last month that he intervened to preserve the ceasefire as tensions simmered between Thailand and Cambodia.
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Centuries of rivalry behind territorial dispute: Beneath the territorial dispute between Thailand and Cambodia lies a century of rivalry when both the countries were warring empires, AP reported. The current territorial claims by both the nations are based largely on a map drawn in 1907 when Cambodia was under the French colonial rule, which Thailand has argued to be inaccurate. In 1962, the International Court of Justice awarded sovereignty to Cambodia over an area which included 1,000-year-old Preah Vihear temple.
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