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New York Magazine on MSNWhat India Lost in Its Brief Battle With PakistanIndia hit Pakistan with airstrikes deep into the country, killing dozens, but Pakistan shot down multiple Indian planes. India accused Pakistan of a drone attack near the Kashmiri line of control, which Pakistan denied;
Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the wounds of decades of strife are deep.
With last-minute U.S. mediation, cooler heads prevailed between India and Pakistan. But a flare-up is inevitable.
Under Prime Minister Modi, India’s counter-terror doctrine shifted from reactive caution to proactive deterrence
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and others are playing a key albeit unfamiliar role in trying to cool regional tensions, filling a vacuum vacated by the U.S.
The Indian military said early Wednesday it had launched strikes against Pakistan in retaliation for last month’s militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir.
India and Pakistan have fought several wars over Kashmir, but the two sides’ active nuclear arsenals significantly raise the stakes of any future conflict.
Poet Zareef Ahmed Zareef has watched India and Pakistan fight for decades over his homeland, the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. He was born in 1947, the same year India and Pakistan became independent nations and British colonial rule ended.
Iran's foreign minister warned Britain, France and Germany on Monday that a decision to trigger a U.N. mechanism reimposing sanctions on Tehran could lead to an irreversible escalation of tensions.