Thai Prime Minister Anuthin Chanvirakoon has pledged to continue fighting on the border with Cambodia. He made the statement hours after US President Donald Trump announced that the sides were ready for a ceasefire.
“Thailand will continue military action until we feel that our land and people are no longer threatened. I want to make that clear. Our actions this morning have already spoken for themselves,” Chanvirakoon wrote on Facebook.
Cambodia’s Information Ministry said Thailand’s military continued to strike targets along the border. Thailand in turn accused Cambodia of” repeated violations of international rules”, such as striking civilian targets and laying mines.
Earlier, Trump said he had spoken to Thai and Cambodian Prime Ministers Anuthin Chanvirakul and Hun Manet. “They agreed to cease all shelling starting tonight and return to the original peace agreement,” the US president wrote on social media Truth on 12 December.
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia resumed on Monday, 8 December. Both sides accused each other of violating truce agreements brokered by Trump. As Al Jazeera writes, another escalation of the conflict in both countries has left more than 20 people dead and around 200 others injured.
Previous border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand occurred in July 2025, days after two Thai soldiers were killed by landmines. Thai Air Force F-16 fighter jets responded with airstrikes in Cambodia.
In October, mediated by US President Donald Trump, the two sides signed a declaration pledging to end all hostilities and establish good neighbourly relations. Thailand promised to release 18 Cambodian prisoners of war and Cambodia promised to begin withdrawing heavy artillery from the border. Malaysian observers were to take over monitoring of the ceasefire.
The conflict between modern Thailand and Cambodia over border territories and Buddhist temples located on them has been going on for more than 100 years and has led to more than 10 wars in the 20th and 21st centuries alone.