The long-simmering conflict in Kashmir, India, blew up on Tuesday, when Islamic Kashmir separatists killed 26 tourists and injured over a dozen others. The attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in India since the 2008 Mumbai attacks,

The Pakistani government said that if India followed through on a threat to block rivers it would take it as “an act of war.”

The United Nations urged India and Pakistan to show "maximum restraint" as the nuclear-armed rivals imposed tit-for-tat diplomatic measures over a deadly shooting in Kashmir. "We very much appeal to both the