India, Pakistan Claim to Down Each Other’s Jets as Kashmir Tensions Intensify

Pakistani soldiers stand next to what Pakistan says is the wreckage of an Indian fighter jet shot down in Pakistan controled Kashmir at Somani area in Bhimbar district near the Line of Control on Feb. 27, 2019. STR/AFP/Getty Images

India and Pakistan both said they shot down each other’s military jets on Feb. 27, with Pakistan capturing an Indian pilot.

Over the past two days, both countries have ordered airstrikes—the first time in history that two nuclear-armed powers have engaged in airstrikes—as ground forces also exchanged fire in over a dozen areas.