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bangkok -- The following information was released by the Voice of America (VOA): Thailand this week lifted emergency rule in parts of the country's restive south, where a Muslim insurgency [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: A car bomb planted by alleged separatist insurgents at a housing compound for police officers and their [...]

Byline: Caleb Quinley Much of Anchana Heemmina's work involves listening to stories of immeasurable pain, all part of her campaign to stop the cycle of violence that has long haunted [...]

BANGKOK, September 7, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Two militants died in clashes with rangers and soldiers in Thailand's southern province of Songkhla, according to Thai media on Monday. The [...]

BANGKOK, August 16, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Another three insurgents were killed by army troops during marathon shoot-outs in southern Thailand over the last few days, said an army [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: Separatist insurgents in Thailand unlawfully targeted civilians in a bomb attack outside the Southern Border Provinces Administrative [...]

BANGKOK, February 24, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Two school children were among eight people injured by shrapnel from a roadside bomb near a park in Thailand's restive southern province [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: The Thai government of Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha is signaling a new approach to the armed [...]

BANGKOK, January 31, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Thailand's National Security Council (NSC) on Friday told a press briefing that the first round of resumed peace talks with Thailand's restive [...]

Byline: Hannah Beech and Ryn Jirenuwat A judge's dramatic act drew attention to his accusations that he was being pressured to unfairly convict five Muslims in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south. YALA, [...]

GENERAL PREM TINSULANONDA, who has died aged 98, was a former prime minister of Thailand and the most prominent supporter, often from behind the scenes, of the Thai royal house [...]

On allegedly planting a device which did not explode outside national police headquarters, hours before a series of minor bombs exploded in Bangkok on Aug. 2, two men had been [...]

BANGKOK, August 6, 2019 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Thai Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan told media on Tuesday that the culprits behind last Friday's Bangkok bomb explosions came from [...]

BANGKOK, July 24, 2019 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday ordered extensive search operations in southern province Pattani to hunt for those involved in the [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: Insurgents Bomb Crowded Market Sunai Phasuk Senior Researcher, Asia Division SunaiBKK When Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) insurgents [...]

BANGKOK, May 28, 2019 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Thai government on Tuesday blamed insurgents for a bomb attack in southern Thailand's Pattani province, ordering an urgent hunt for the [...]

BANGKOK, April 5, 2019 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Two borders patrol police were shot dead by gunmen when they were praying in a mosque in southern Thailand's Yala on Friday. [...]

BANGKOK, February 27, 2019 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Two policemen on Wednesday were found murdered and cast into a ditch after being abducted by insurgents from a teashop in southern [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia:Authorities in the insurgency-stricken Thai Deep South said Thursday they had found no evidence so far to charge 18 [...]

Nearly two dozen arson and bomb attacks erupted across Thailand's insurgency-torn south shortly after midnight, the army said Friday, causing widespread blackouts but no casualties in the region. The violence, [...]

BANGKOK, August 14, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A leading insurgent in Thailand's turbulent southernmost region, for whom several arrest warrants have been issued since the last decade, surrendered to [...]

Insurgency in southern Thailand: Blasts from the past New bombings in an old conflict ON THE evening of May 20th, just as it was growing dark, a series of explosions [...]

BANGKOK, February 23, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Insurgents have attacked military bases in four different districts of the southern Thai Province of Pattani on Friday night, but no casualties [...]

Byline: MATT WHEELER On Aug. 11 and 12, coordinated bombings and arson attacks in tourist destinations in seven provinces of peninsular Thailand killed four people and injured 35. No group [...]

On Aug. 11 and 12, coordinated bombings and arson attacks in tourist destinations in seven provinces of peninsular Thailand killed four people and injured 35. No group claimed responsibility, and [...]

Pattani, Thailand, May 20, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Noel Caballero ).- In September 2016, 700 students were in class when they heard a deafening explosion from outside their school [...]

Pattani, Thailand, May 19, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Noel Caballero ).- Southern Thailand's main Muslim insurgency group have been planning and executing focused and more powerful attacks for months [...]

Tumpat (Malaysia), May 18, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Noel Caballero ).- An escalation in attacks over the last few months in southern Thailand is a step toward peace and [...]

Event On May 9th two bombs were detonated at a supermarket in the southern province of Pattani, injuring at least 60 people. The Pattani deputy police chief, Rewat Srichantub, said [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: Bombings by alleged separatist insurgents at the largest shopping mall in Thailand's southern border provinces appear intended [...]

Bangkok, Apr 7, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- A total of 19 small explosions were reported in conflict-prone southern Thailand - where a Muslim separatist insurgency is underway - after [...]

Event On April 3rd a security checkpoint was attacked in the Krong Pinang district of Yala province in the south of Thailand. Twelve security personnel were injured. The government has [...]

Event Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand ambushed a pick-up truck in Narathiwat province on March 2nd, killing four members of a Buddhist family, including an eight-year-old boy. Analysis The attack [...]

Bangkok, Mar 1, 2017 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Negotiators from southern Thailand's Malay-Muslim insurgency movement have agreed upon creating 'safe zones' with the country's army, in what is a first [...]