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Thailand, connected Thursday (December 18, 2025), carried retired much airstrikes connected Cambodia, claiming its pitchy fighters struck a warehouse wherever the Cambodian service had stored rockets that person been deployed to deadly effect successful combat that began past week.
The 2 nations person been warring implicit patches of territory on the borderline that some claim. Several disputed areas incorporate the remains of centuries-old temples that person been damaged by the fighting, with Thailand claiming Cambodian forces had utilized them arsenic bases.
The latest circular of wide warring began connected Dec. 8, a time aft a borderline skirmish wounded 2 Thai soldiers. Since past combat has breached retired connected respective fronts, with Thailand carrying retired airstrikes successful Cambodia with F-16 combatant jets and Cambodia firing thousands of medium-range BM-21 rockets from truck-mounted launchers that tin sprout up to 40 astatine a time.
Cambodia reported Thursday (December 18) that Thai jets had dropped bombs connected Poipet, a metropolis successful northwestern Cambodia that, successful peaceful times, is its main hub for land-based commercialized with Thailand. It said Thai F-16s had dropped 3 bombs connected a civilian residential neighborhood, damaging portion of a warehouse and causing flimsy injuries to 2 civilians.
Information Minister Neth Pheaktra aboriginal said a 2nd bombing struck Serei Sophaon, 46 kilometers (29 miles) eastbound of Poipet successful Banteay Meanchey province.
Thailand's subject acknowledged it had bombed Poipet, but claimed that Cambodia had fixed the content it had deed the halfway of the city, portion the people was really connected its outskirts.
Thai Air Force spokesperson Air Marshal Jackkrit Thammavichai said the targeted warehouse was attacked due to the fact that it was utilized to store BM-21 rockets, and that each effort was made to debar injuring civilians. The metropolis has been mostly evacuated since the latest warring began.
Media successful Thailand reported that 21 soldiers person been killed since Dec. 8.
Thailand said 1 civilian died straight a effect of combat, portion 20 others died successful circumstances related to the conflict, specified arsenic accent during evacuation.
Cambodia’s Interior Ministry said Thursday that 18 civilians were killed and 79 were injured since Dec. 8. It has not announced subject deaths, which Thailand has estimated astatine much than 200.
Hundreds of thousands of radical connected some sides of the borderline person been evacuated to impermanent displacement camps.
Each broadside blames the different for initiating the warring and claims to beryllium acting successful aforesaid defense.
In July, 5 days of warring ended with a ceasefire promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump. It had been brokered by Malaysia and pushed done by unit from Trump, who threatened to withhold commercialized privileges unless Thailand and Cambodia agreed. It was formalized successful much item successful October astatine a determination gathering successful Malaysia that Trump attended.
Trump announced past week 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 fight,
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has continued his efforts to marque peace, and China, a adjacent state of Cambodia that besides maintains bully relations with Thailand, said it was sending a peculiar envoy to some countries this week to question an extremity to the fighting.
