LONDON – At least seven civilians have been killed and about 20 others injured in Cambodia amid fresh border clashes with neighboring Thailand, according to Cambodia’s Ministry of National Defense.
This week’s Thai attacks, stemming from a long-running border dispute between the two Southeast Asian nations, have also forced more than 20,000 people from their homes in several communities, the Cambodian ministry said, in addition to destroying infrastructure, damaging temples and disrupting public services.
Evacuated Thai residents gather at a temporary shelter following clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border in Buriram province on December 8, 2025.
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“In addition to these significant impacts, further tragedies and damage continue to occur as the Thai military has launched various types of long-range munitions against Cambodian civilian settlements located up to 30 kilometers from the border,” the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, at least one Thai soldier was killed and 29 others wounded in renewed fighting in the disputed border territory, according to the Royal Thai Army.
The army said in a statement that its troops were enduring “continuous attacks on our positions” by Cambodian forces on Tuesday. Opposition troops had been “firing BM-21 multiple launch rockets and employing bomb-launching drones and kamikaze drones targeting our bases and defensive positions on various battlefronts” near the border, the military said.
More than 125,000 people were using the hundreds of temporary shelters set up on the Thai side of the border, the military said.
A resident shows damage to a house suspected to have been caused by Cambodian artillery shells during clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province on December 9, 2025.
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Since Monday, clashes have spread to several provinces along the Cambodia-Thai border. Both sides accuse each other of having started the fighting.
The latest clashes come just months after both sides agreed to a ceasefire. The two Southeast Asian nations have long disputed territorial sovereignty along their more than 500-mile land border, according to The Associated Press.
