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The former is a humid tropical town close to Thailand’s border with Malaysia; the latter a jungle island in the southernmost reaches of the Philippines. Even the most intrepid foreign tourists rarely visit them; if either was to disappear off the face...
Tags: Jolo, Thailand, foreign tourist, Mindanao, Narathiwat, Sulu Archipelago, Irregular military, Patani, Abu Sayyaf, Military history of the Philippines, Moro, War Conflict, Islamist groups
Suspected Islamic separatists shot dead three men on Monday morning in the latest bout of violence in Thailand's restive south, local police said. Gunmen killed a Muslim villager in his house in Pattani province, while two Buddhist truck drivers were...
Tags: Muslims, Thailand, Pattani, Patani, Gulf of Thailand, Narathiwat Province, South Thailand bombings, Narathiwat, Pattani Province, South Thailand insurgency, War Conflict
Suspected Islamist insurgents set off a bomb hidden in a motorcycle in Thailand's troubled south Sunday, killing a soldier and wounding six other people, police said. The device, containing an estimated five kilograms (11 pounds) of explosives and believed...
Tags: Thailand, Narathiwat, South Thailand insurgency, suicide bombings in Iraq, Gulf of Thailand, Narathiwat Province, Second Chechen War, War Conflict
Islamic insurgents have shot dead three civilians and six people have been injured in bomb and shooting attacks in Thailand's troubled south. Police said a 49-year-old deputy village headman and a 52-year-old man were shot dead in an ambush early on...
Tags: Thailand, Narathiwat, Yala Province, South Thailand insurgency, Thailand Standoff, Gulf of Thailand, Terrorism in Thailand, Narathiwat Province, War Conflict
Meanwhile, another ten people were injured elsewhere in Sungai Kolok when a bomb exploded in front of a hotel in the district. About 4,000 people have been killed in separatist violence in the southern Thai provinces of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani since...
Tags: Thailand, Narathiwat
At least 10 men opened fire in the pre-dawn assault in Narathiwat province, police Lt...The attackers fled in pickup trucks after a 10-minute gunfight, he said. More than 3,700 people have been killed in Thailand's three southernmost provinces since an...
Tags: Thailand, Narathiwat, southern border
The attacks took place in Yala and Pattani, two of the three Malay Muslim provinces where 29 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in the past 10 days, among them soldiers, teachers and Buddhist monks. The body and severed head of the rubber...
Tags: Yala, Thailand, yala provinces, rubber tapper, Narathiwat
S army chief today denied claims that security forces were to blame for a bloody attack on a mosque in the country's troubled Muslim-majority south that killed 11 people. The government ordered General Anupong Paojinda to fly to the volatile region a...
Tags: Thailand, evening prayers, mosque attack, army chief, Narathiwat, opened fire, southern thailand, narathiwat provinces, gunmen killing, prime minister
The Thai army killed four suspected Islamist militants during a gunfight on Monday amid continuing violence in Thailand's troubled Muslim south. Militants opened fire on soldiers in the southern province of Narathiwat, according to police. Two people...
Tags: Thailand, Narathiwat, Pattani
A car bomb blast at a fruit market and another explosion minutes later at a nearby teashop wounded 73 people in Muslim southern Thailand today, police said. The first explosion appeared to target an outdoor meeting of village chiefs at a district office...
Tags: muslim southern thailand, Thailand, Narathiwat, southern thailand, Muslim, district office, government office, local government, bombs exploded, fruit market