Overview
- Clashes entered a second week on Sunday with both governments reporting ongoing shelling and airstrikes across multiple border provinces.
- Cambodia closed all crossings with Thailand and Thai authorities imposed nighttime curfews in some provinces as displacement swelled to about 800,000, officials said.
- At least 25 people have been killed, including 14 Thai soldiers and 11 Cambodian civilians, with each side accusing the other of striking civilian areas.
- Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul vowed to continue operations, while Cambodia said Thai F-16s dropped bombs and destroyed bridges and Thailand cited Cambodian rocket fire.
- The renewed escalation followed a December 7 skirmish and comes after July and October accords backed by the U.S. and Malaysia faltered over landmine allegations that Thailand makes and Cambodia denies.