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Why Thailand and Cambodia are fighting again after Trump ceasefire

created: Dec. 10, 2025, 11:03 p.m. | updated: Dec. 12, 2025, 5:37 a.m.

Why has this happened so soon after the ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump in July? Two Thai soldiers were injured, neither seriously. Thailand has presented compelling evidence of this, accused Cambodia of bad faith, and refused to release 18 of its soldiers captured in July. He has given the military carte blanche to manage the border conflict as it sees fit. Getty Images Cambodia has continued to lay new land-mines in its borderlands with Thailand, causing at least seven Thai soldiers to lose limbs

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