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\nCambodian soldiers are greeted after their release at a checkpoint along the border with Thailand<\/p>\n
Thailand has released 18 Cambodian soldiers held since July, both governments said, after a fresh ceasefire held for more than three days following weeks of deadly border clashes.<\/p>\n
Thailand’s foreign ministry confirmed the repatriation of the soldiers to Cambodia, saying it was done “as a demonstration of goodwill and confidence-building”, according to a statement.<\/p>\n
The Southeast Asian neighbours agreed a truce on Saturday, ending renewed fighting at their border that killed dozens of people and displaced more than a million this month.<\/p>\n
Under the truce, Cambodia and Thailand pledged to cease fire, freeze troop movements and cooperate on demining efforts along their disputed frontier.<\/p>\n
\nCambodian soldiers are greeted after their release at a checkpoint along the border with Thailand<\/p>\n
They also agreed to allow civilians living in border areas to return home as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Cambodia has said its soldiers were captured by Thai forces on 29 July – nearly eight hours after a ceasefire that halted five days of deadly clashes went into effect.<\/p>\n
The United States, China and Malaysia brokered a truce to end that round of fighting, but the ceasefire was short-lived.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump jetted to Malaysia in October to oversee the signing of a follow-on declaration between Thailand and Cambodia, touting new trade deals after the neighbours agreed to prolong their truce.<\/p>\n
That pact said that Thailand would “promptly release” the captured Cambodian soldiers, calling them “prisoners of war”.<\/p>\n
But Thailand suspended the agreement the following month, after Thai soldiers were wounded by landmines while on patrol at the border.<\/p>\n
The reignited fighting this month – with artillery, tanks, drones and jets – spread to nearly every border province on both sides.<\/p>\n
The conflict stems from a territorial dispute over the colonial-era demarcation of the 800km Thai-Cambodian border, where both sides claim centuries-old temple ruins.<\/p>\n
While the two nations agreed to stop fighting, they still need to resolve the demarcation of their disputed border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thailand has released 18 Cambodian soldiers held since July, both governments said, after a fresh ceasefire held for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-259698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115813881263937969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}