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.

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Israel-Iran Conflict. In Photos and Video. A family near a crater caused by an Iranian missile strike, in Herzliya, Israel, on Tuesday. Credit... Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times.

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 ...