As the thunder of artillery and the roar of F-16 engines echoed across the Dangrek Mountains in late July 2025, Southeast Asia’s century-old experiment in regional peace hung by a thread. Thailand and Cambodia—once the twin heirs of Angkor and Ayutthaya—turned their border into a battlefield, inflicting civilian casualties, displacing over 300,000 people, and damaging the sacred Preah Vihear complex in the worst clashes since 2011.
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