Fatal clash on Thai-Cambodia border leaves Trump-brokered peace deal on shaky ground

<p>The truce broke down this week after a Thai soldier lost a leg to a landmine blast, prompting Thailand’s PM to say the peace deal was ‘now over’</p><p>One person has been killed by gunfire along the Thai-Cambodia border as conflict heats up between the two nations days after a Trump-backed ceasefire agreement collapsed.</p><p>Fighting erupted between Thai and Cambodian troops over five days in July, with 43 people killed and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-malaysia">300,000 displaced in the worst fighting</a> along the border in a decade. Donald Trump oversaw the signing of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/trump-oversees-thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-signing-as-asia-tour-gets-under-way">ceasefire agreement</a> between the two nations in Malaysia this October, after the US president previously threatened to withhold trade privileges from the two countries unless they stopped fighting.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/13/thailand-cambodia-border-clash">Continue reading...</a>