Fighting along the Thailand–Cambodia border continued on Saturday morning, despite US President Donald Trump declaring hours earlier that he had brokered a ceasefire between the two neighbours. Writing on Truth Social on Friday, Trump said he had spoken to Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, adding that both leaders had agreed to “cease all shooting effective this evening” and return to a peace agreement finalised in October.

Events on the ground quickly contradicted that claim. Thailand’s foreign ministry publicly rejected the assertion that a ceasefire had been agreed, while Prime Minister Anutin said any halt in fighting would depend on Cambodia first ending its attacks. Cambodian authorities also stopped short of confirming a truce, with the

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