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Thailand — Suspected Muslim insurgents attacked a patrol of Thai soldiers in the restive south Thursday with a bomb and gunfire, wounding six, an army spokesman said. The soldiers were patrolling the volatile Bannang Sata district of Yala Province in...

Since the dramatic upsurge of violence in the predominantly Muslim provinces of southern Thailand in 2004, many have simplified portrayals of the ethnic Malay Muslim population. That's led to widespread misconceptions about the spiraling conflict, including that nearly all of...

Suspected Islamic insurgents shot and killed two Muslim civilians in Thailand's restive south, where more than 4,000 people have died in nearly six years of unrest, police said on Wednesday. A former deputy village chief was shot dead in troubled...

Afghanistan and Pakistan show how difficult and expensive these insurgencies are to counter and how disruptive and divisive they can be even with ill-defined, non-specific objectives. Thailand seems about as far from the Taliban as you can get, yet just...

Chavalit's proposal cannot be delivered because it's coming from the wrong side When former prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh proposed a form of autonomy for the deep South he was offering a compromise between history and the modern times so the...

Suspected Islamist insurgents shot dead five Muslims, mostly civilians, in a new spate of attacks across the troubled south of Thailand, police said Tuesday. Gunmen killed a former village chief and his deputy in a drive-by attack on their car...

2 November 2009 The device known as GT200 has been used by the Thai military to detect explosive materials and has drawn greater controversy with time as serious doubts of its effectiveness amount among human rights organizations, civil society, and...