Here’s a look at that history: 1947-48 With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into what became Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

After conflict throughout the 1990s and escalation between India and Pakistan at the end of the decade, Kashmir became one of the most militarized areas in the world.

[1/2]A child from Pakistan places his hand on barbed wire as he waits to go to Pakistan at the Attari-Wagah border crossing, after India revoked visas and suspended visa services to Pakistani ...

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.

After a regional war in 1971 that led to the creation of Bangladesh, Pakistan and India decided to revisit the unsolved issue of Kashmir. In December 1972, the countries announced that they had ...

And so it goes after the brief but bruising conflict between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan with both sides loudly talking up their successes while quietly down-playing losses.

Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran was a monarchy under the Pahlavi dynasty, with Reza Shah (1925–1941) remembered as a respected modernizer who fostered ties with nations like Israel and ...

Bloody conflict between the two peoples goes back more than a century. Under the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh became an autonomous region within the republic of Azerbaijan.