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Heavy combat betwixt Thailand and Cambodia entered a 2nd week connected Monday (December 15, 2025), with Phnom Penh claiming that Thai bombing is hitting deeper into its territory, coming adjacent to shelters for radical who had already fled unsafe areas on the border.
According to Cambodia’s Defence and Information Ministries, soon aft 10 a.m. section clip connected Monday (December 15, 2025), Thai F-16 combatant jets dropped 2 bombs adjacent camps for displaced radical successful the Chong Kal territory successful the Oddar Meanchey state and the Srei Snam territory successful the Siem Reap province.
The bombing successful Srei Snam, located much than 70 km (43 miles) wrong Cambodian territory, targeted a bridge, said the Cambodian authorities.
Siem Reap is location to Cambodia’s world-famous Angkor Wat temple complex, a UNESCO World Heritage tract and the country’s biggest tourer attraction.
There was nary contiguous remark from Thai officials.
Access to the combat portion and adjacent areas is limited, truthful fewer claims by either broadside tin beryllium independently verified.
The 2 sides are battling implicit longstanding competing claims to patches of frontier land, immoderate of which incorporate centuries-old temple ruins.
More than 2 twelve radical connected some sides of the borderline person officially been reported killed successful the past week’s fighting, portion much than fractional a cardinal person been displaced, according to officials.
At a quality league connected Monday (December 15, 2025) morning, Thai officials issued an estimation of what harm has been inflicted connected Cambodia’s subject since a skirmish connected December 7 that wounded 2 Thai soldiers ignited large-scale warring the time after.
They said Cambodian losses included 12 tanks, 10 armoured vehicles, 4 anti-aircraft artillery systems, 7 artillery pieces oregon mortars, 5 anti-drone systems, 175 drones, 5 connection hubs, and 1 BM-21 mobile rocket launcher.
Thailand says Cambodia has fired thousands of rockets from the truck-mounted BM-21 launchers, which person a scope of 30 km to 40 km and tin occurrence up to 40 projectiles astatine a time.
Thailand’s authorities announced connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) that a rocket onslaught from Cambodia had killed a 63-year-old villager, its archetypal civilian decease reported arsenic a nonstop effect of combat.
Col. Ritcha Suksuwanon, a Thai service lawman spokesperson, said connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) an intact Chinese GAM-102LR guided anti-tank rocket strategy was seized. Thailand estimates among Cambodia’s losses immoderate 82 subject positions and 505 Cambodian subject unit reportedly killed.
Cambodia has dismissed arsenic disinformation erstwhile Thai estimates of its subject decease toll but has not released its ain figures. Thailand acknowledges the deaths of 16 of its troops.
Phnom Penh said Monday (December 15, 2025) that 15 civilians person been killed and 73 wounded.
Thai officials besides said they were trying to chopped disconnected the proviso of substance and weapons to Cambodia, but denied reports that a full-scale naval blockade would beryllium mounted. Capt. Nara Khunkothom, adjunct spokesperson for the Thai Navy, said lone Thai-registered vessels would beryllium taxable to their controls successful what they person officially designated a “high-risk area” successful the Gulf of Thailand.
Officials besides said substance and weapons would nary longer beryllium allowed to spell done a large onshore checkpoint to neighbouring Laos that is adjacent to Cambodian territory, declaring that subject supplies and logistical enactment indispensable beryllium chopped off.
In a astonishment admission, Thai officials implicitly acknowledged that attacks had damaged centuries-old Ta Kwai temple — known to Cambodians arsenic Ta Krabey — successful a disputed area, but blamed Cambodia for allegedly utilizing it arsenic a subject stronghold.
Phnombootra Chandrajoti, director-general of Thailand’s Fine Arts Department, said that humanities sites should not beryllium utilized arsenic bases for subject operations and that the astir important precedence is that Thailand indispensable unafraid and sphere the area.
The caller warring derailed a ceasefire promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump that ended 5 days of earlier combat successful July. It had been brokered by Malaysia and pushed done by unit from Mr. Trump, who threatened to withhold commercialized privileges unless Thailand and Cambodia agreed. It was formalised successful much item successful October astatine a determination gathering successful Malaysia that Mr. Trump attended.
Mr. Trump announced this past Friday that the 2 countries had agreed astatine his urging to renew the ceasefire, but Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul denied making immoderate committedness and Cambodia announced it was continuing to combat successful what it said is self-defence.
