New Delhi used the conflict to back guerrilla forces fighting the Pakistani army. India’s involvement opened a new front with Pakistan, which launched aerial attacks in late 1971.

Here’s what to know about the history of tensions. 1947 - Partition and independence from the British Empire Clashes over Kashmir between India and Pakistan are as old as the countries themselves.

An estimated 3 million people are killed in the conflict. 1972 — India and Pakistan sign a peace accord, renaming the ceasefire line in Kashmir as the Line of Control.

TBILISI, March 13 (Reuters) - Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were both members of collapsed. Here is a ...

Israel and Iran have been enemies for decades — but this is their most sustained direct fighting ever. Here’s how a shadow war erupted into an overt conflict.

Tensions were already high between India and Pakistan in the summer of 1965. There had been a skirmish between their forces along the border earlier in the year, in an area south of Kashmir.. When ...

Victory has a thousand fathers, as they say, but defeat is an orphan. And so it goes after the brief but bruising conflict between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan with both sides loudly talking ...

The conflict between Iran and Israel, once relegated to the shadows, has escalated yet again. On June 13, explosions rocked Tehran as Israel carried out a major attack on Iran’s nuclear program ...