Over the weekend, dozens of coordinated night-time attacks occurred across Thailand's three southernmost provinces near Malaysia, leaving government buildings and vehicles burned. Reports differed on the number of injured, with one figure citing three and another citing two. The attacks were followed on Monday (August 24, 2026) by an explosion at a convenience store. These incidents are the latest in a long-running conflict in Thailand's far south, where a low-level insurgency by Muslim separatists has killed thousands of people over the past two decades. The region was once part of the Malay-Muslim Patani sultanate, annexed in the early 1900s by Buddhist-majority Thailand, then known as Siam. The renewed violence has raised concerns about security and the status of peace talks.