India and Pakistan are exchanging heavy artillery fire across the line of control that divides Kashmir into Indian- and Pakistani-administered areas. The cross-border fighting began after India launched a major military operation with a series of airstrikes on nine sites,

Tensions between India and Pakistan ratcheted up as the two countries traded military strikes, weeks after a militant attack in Kashmir killed 26 people in India, most of them tourists. New Delhi said Wednesday it had conducted “precise and restrained” strikes on “terrorist camps,