Reluctant at First, Trump Officials Intervened in South Asia as Nuclear Fears Grew

Reluctant at First, Trump Officials Intervened in South Asia as Nuclear Fears Grew

As a conflict between India and Pakistan escalated, Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Thursday that it was “fundamentally none of our business.” The United States could counsel both sides to back away, he suggested, but this was not America’s fight. Yet within 24 hours, Mr. Vance and Marco Rubio, in his first … Read more

A New Kind of Battle for India and Pakistan, Two Old Foes

A New Kind of Battle for India and Pakistan, Two Old Foes

India and Pakistan moved closer to all-out war early Saturday as the Pakistani military accused India of attacking at least three of its air bases, and then reported that it had retaliated by targeting Indian air bases and a missile storage site. The reported exchange of strikes was a sharp escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbors … Read more

A Tension Unlike Anything Felt in Decades

A Tension Unlike Anything Felt in Decades

As the conflict between India and Pakistan has escalated, with its impact felt well beyond the border in the disputed region of Kashmir, this is the tensest time I can remember since 1971. That was the year of the last major declared war between India and Pakistan. I was in seventh grade, and I can … Read more