A Thai military vehicle passes by a Thai national flag in the eastern Sisaket province, near Cambodia, on December 30, 2025. AMAURY PAUL / AFP
Thailand accused Cambodia of violating a 10-day-old truce on Tuesday, January 6, saying cross-border mortar fire wounded a soldier, while Phnom Penh said a "pile of garbage" exploded, injuring two of its own troops.
A decades-old border dispute between the Southeast Asian nations erupted into military clashes several times last year, with fighting in December killing dozens of people and displacing around one million on both sides. The two countries agreed a fragile truce on December 27, ending three weeks of clashes.
The nations' long-standing conflict stems from a dispute over the colonial-era demarcation of their 800-kilometer (500-mile) border, where both sides claim territory and centuries-old temple ruins.
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