Thailand releases 18 Cambodian soldiers held since July

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Thailand releases 18 Cambodian soldiers held since July

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Wed, 31 December 2025 at 7:22 am GMT+1

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The 18 Cambodian soliders had been held by Thailand since late July after a previous round of border fighting (STR)

(STR/AFP/AFP)

Thailand on Wednesday released 18 Cambodian soldiers held for five months as prisoners of war, days after a fresh truce between the nations ended weeks of deadly fighting along their contested frontier.

A decades-old border dispute between the Southeast Asian neighbours erupted into military clashes several times this year, with the latest round of fighting in December killing dozens of people and displacing more than a million.

Some of the 18 soldiers, with closely cropped hair, smiled, waved and gestured with their palms pressed together to cheering crowds through the windows of a bus in the border province of Pailin, video from Cambodian state television showed.