India launched military strikes on Pakistan on Wednesday and Pakistan claimed it shot down five Indian Air Force jets, in an escalation that has pushed the two nations to the brink of a wider conflict.

Tensions are rapidly escalating between nuclear powers India and Pakistan after India on Tuesday struck what it says were terrorist targets deep inside Pakistan, which says its military shot down

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,