Thailand launches airstrikes along Cambodia border as tensions escalate

Thailand carried retired airstrikes on its disputed borderline with Cambodia precocious Monday arsenic some governments blamed each different for triggering the latest circular of violence, raising caller doubts astir the stableness of a Trump-brokered ceasefire.

Thai subject officials said Cambodian troops opened occurrence successful respective areas on the frontier, resulting successful the decease of 1 Thai worker and injuring others. The Thai service said civilians successful adjacent communities were being evacuated arsenic the concern intensified. Maj. Gen. Winthai Suvaree told The Associated Press that Cambodian troops fired archetypal into Thai territory and that craft were utilized to onslaught "military targets successful respective areas to suppress Cambodian supporting occurrence attacks."

Cambodia rejected that account. Defense Ministry spokesperson Maly Socheata told AP that Thai forces attacked archetypal and said Cambodia did not retaliate during the archetypal confrontation. The ministry urged Thailand to halt its subject actions.

Footage posted by Cambodia’s Education Ministry showed students leaving schools adjacent the borderline arsenic families rushed to retrieve their children.

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In this photograph released by Royal Thai Army, a wounded Thai worker is carried to beryllium transferred to a infirmary successful Sisaket province, Thailand, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, after, according to a Thai service spokesperson, Cambodian troops fired into Thai territory. (Royal Thai Army via AP)

The escalation follows a smaller speech of occurrence connected Sunday. Thailand said Cambodian forces wounded 2 of its soldiers earlier Thai troops responded for astir 20 minutes. Cambodia claimed Thailand initiated that brushwood arsenic good and said it did not instrumentality fire.

Cambodian soldiers (C) thrust their motorbike arsenic section residents evacuate pursuing clashes on the Cambodia-Thailand borderline successful Preah Vihear state connected December 8, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)

Tensions person persisted contempt an October ceasefire negotiated by U.S. President Donald Trump, which brought an extremity to 5 days of warring successful July that killed dozens of soldiers and civilians. That statement showed signs of strain past period erstwhile respective Thai soldiers were injured by onshore mines successful contested areas, starring the Thai authorities to denote it would suspend implementation of parts of the deal.

Both sides person continued to blasted 1 different for ceasefire violations, adjacent arsenic the truce calls for practice connected excavation removal and steps to stabilize the border.

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Thailand and Cambodia person a agelong past of struggle dating backmost to rival kingdoms that fought implicit power for centuries. In the modern era, disputes person centered connected French colonial-era borderline maps, which Thailand argues are inaccurate.

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet shingle hands pursuing the signing of a Cambodia-Thailand bid woody arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump reacts astatine Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre connected October 26, 2025 successful Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Despite the October agreement, neither state has reached a solution to the underlying territorial dispute, and determination observers pass that renewed clashes could gully the 2 nations person to a wider struggle without renewed diplomatic engagement.