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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Grant Peck

New fighting along the Thai-Cambodian border is rooted in a longstanding territorial dispute

Thailand Cambodia - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A history of enmity between Thailand and Cambodia over competing territorial claims has broken into open combat again, just a few months after the two sides agreed to a ceasefire promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump to end their border fighting.

The two Southeast Asian nations fought in July for five days in and around disputed frontier territory, causing dozens of civilian and military deaths and the evacuation to safety of tens of thousands of villagers on both sides.

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