Cambodia says Thailand escalated strikes during border talks

Cambodia accused Thailand connected Friday (December 26, 2025) of intensifying its bombardment of disputed borderline areas, adjacent arsenic officials from the 2 countries be a multi-day gathering aimed astatine negotiating an extremity to deadly clashes.

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The neighbours' long-standing borderline struggle reignited this month, shattering an earlier truce and sidesplitting much than 40 people, according to authoritative counts. Around a cardinal radical person besides been displaced.

Cambodian and Thai officials were successful their 3rd time of talks astatine a borderline checkpoint connected Friday, with defence ministers from some countries scheduled to conscionable connected Saturday.

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However, Cambodia's Defence Ministry said Thailand's subject carried retired a dense bombardment of disputed borderline areas successful Banteay Meanchey state Friday morning.

"From 6:08 americium to 7:15 am, the Thai subject deployed F-16 combatant jets to driblet arsenic galore arsenic 40 bombs, to intensify its bombardment successful the country of Chok Chey village," it said successful a statement.

Thai media said Friday (December 26) that Cambodian forces had launched dense attacks overnight on the borderline successful Sa Kaeo province, wherever respective homes were damaged by shelling.

The 2 countries blasted each different for instigating the caller fighting, which has dispersed to astir each state on their border.

Both countries besides assertion to person acted successful self-defence and impeach the different of attacking civilians.

The United States, China and Malaysia brokered a truce to extremity 5 days of deadly clashes successful July, but the ceasefire was short-lived.

Earlier Friday, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said connected Facebook that helium had spoken by telephone with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the 2 discussed "ways to unafraid a ceasefire on the Cambodia-Thailand border".

The struggle stems from a territorial quality implicit the colonial-era demarcation of their 800-kilometre (500-mile) frontier and a postulation of temple ruins situated there.