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Insurgents ambushed and killed an army ranger in Yala™s Krong Penang district. The US State Department’s annual report lauded Thailand’s cooperation in fighting terrorism and claimed that international jihadist groups have yet to penetrate the Islamist insurgency in southern Thailand.

A police officer was shot dead and seven other officers injured when insurgents attacked their convoy in Nong Chik district of Pattani province. In Pattani™s Kapor district, insurgents killed one man and wounded seven others. Thailand and Malaysia have agreed to increase border cooperation and participate in joint military exercises in an effort to contain […]

The government denied any al Qaeda involvement in the southern insurgency. Security forces killed a local Runda Kumpulan Kecil leader in Yala. Muslim insurgents killed a civilian in Narathiwat.

Insurgents killed a 50-year-old Muslim man and a defense volunteer in Narathiwat. One insurgent was killed and two Muslim civilians were gunned down in Yala province. In Pattani’s Muang district, a village chief was murdered by three suspected insurgents in his home. Thai soldiers claim to have wounded at least one insurgent after engaging in […]

Insurgents have wounded nine people in a bomb blast at a bus shelter in Sungai Kolok district, Narathiwat province. A teacher at Pattani Technical College was killed in a drive-by shooting in Muang district while a villager was killed in Nong Chik district. A soldier providing protection to teachers was wounded by roadside bomb in […]

Insurgents killed three people in the conflict-torn south that has seen emergency rule extended tell October. In Pattani, a 50-year old Buddhist was shot to death at his home while insurgents gunned down a 54-year old Muslim man outside of a mosque. In Sungai Kolok in Narathiwat province, a 57-year old Malaysian Karoake bar owner […]

Emergency rule has been extended until Oct. 19 in insurgency-plagued provinces of southern Thailand. The Pattani Malay Liberation Movement announced a ceasefire with hopes of achieving serious dialogue with the Thai government. Insurgents fired grenades at a company compound for defense volunteers in the Mayo district of Pattani.

Islamic insurgents killed three Thai soldiers providing security to teachers in the Yaha district of Yala province. The three soldiers’ deaths came a day after five soldiers and civilians were killed in a bomb attack in Narathiwat province.

Insurgents killed five Thai soldiers in a roadside bomb attack and ambush while on night patrol in Narathiwat province. Insurgents opened fire on the soldiers after their vehicle had been struck and was overturned. Parliament is debating lowering wages for soldiers serving in the south.

Insurgents ambushed and killed an ex-paramilitary ranger and his wife as they were driving home in Pattani™s Muang district. Their 2-year-old daughter was wounded in the attack. Insurgents severely wounded the headman of a village in Ra-ngae district in Narathiwat province.

Two civilians were killed in separate incidents while two soldiers were injured in Pattani province. The soldiers were injured while escorting teachers in Thung Yang Daeng district after a bomb exploded. One male civilian was killed while drinking tea in Mayor district and the other male civilian was gunned down on his way home in […]

Insurgents killed a defense volunteer in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province and an army corporal on patrol outside a school. Three civilians and two soldiers were injured when a bomb planted in a motorcycle exploded in a market in Thepha district in Songkla province.

Insurgents killed one person and wounded 26 more in two bombings at open-air restaurants in Yala province. Four other men were killed in insurgent-related shootings in the three southern provinces. Four soldiers were injured when their truck was destroyed by a roadside bomb in Yala province.

A drive-by bomb attack in the town of Yala in Pattani province wounded 23 people, mostly Muslim worshippers, after the bomb exploded in front of a mosque. Insurgents were targeting a government pickup truck but missed. A married couple was seriously wounded in a shooting, and a vendor was stabbed to death by suspected insurgents […]

A male school teacher was shot to death while riding home with five other teachers on their motorbikes. The teacher was killed in Pattani’s Khok Pho district. No other teachers were harmed. Insurgents are blamed for the killing.

An official of Tambon Bor Hin Administration Organisation was killed in a drive-by shooting while he was at a tea shop in Panare district in Pattani. A motorcycle bomb exploded in Sisakhon district of Narathiwat, wounding a member of the Municipal council. A bomb injured two police on patrol in Yaring district in Pattani.

A bomb attack in Yala province by Muslim terrorists killed two people and injured at least 55 more. A motorcycle bomb exploded near a car showroom in the town of Yala, and a second bomb exploded when authorities and rescue workers came to help the wounded.

Insurgents detonated a roadside bomb in Krong Penang district in Yala that wounded five Thai soldiers. The military patrol was on an intra-village road at Na Tham village when the attack occurred. Two women were killed in drive-by shootings in Yala in Muang district.

A senior nurse working at a hospital in a Thai military camp was killed in a drive-by shooting by suspected separatists. She was killed on her motorcycle in Thung Yangdaeng district while heading to work inside the Ingkayuth Boriharn military camp in Pattani.

Five people, including two Islamist fighters, have been killed in the south. Security forces killed two Islamist fighters in an hour-long gunbattle in Narathiwat province. In Yala province, two Muslim men were killed in a drive-by shootings and a Buddhist woman was murdered in her grocery store.

The chief of the public works office of Tha Kam Sam tambon was shot to death on his way to work in Pattani province. In Pattani, the village chief of Moo 7 tambon Phitain of Tung Yangdaeng was also killed.

Muslim insurgents killed a policeman and wounded 43 more in a grenade attack on a police station in Yala. A car bombing at the same location two hours later wounded 17 people.

A Buddhist couple was gunned down and then doused with gasoline in the middle of a road by terrorists in Pattani province. A father, his wife, and his two daughters were attacked by militants as they traveled on motorcycle to a a school in Pattani; the father was killed. Two soldiers were also wounded by […]

Four gunmen on motorcycles murdered two villagers at a tea shop in Narathiwat province. Also in Narathiwat, a policeman on a motorcycle was ambushed and wounded as he returned home from praying at a local mosque.

Two soldiers and and a Buddhist civilian were killed in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province by militants who stole the soldiers’ assault rifles. Three other civilians were also killed in three separate shootings, including a district chief and assistant village chief.