Once again, international tensions have flared up over a place named Kashmir.
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It's not an independent country.
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Kashmir is a highly disputed region of Asia that both India and Pakistan claim as their own.
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They each control part of it, so does China, but was in the section of Kashmir that's controlled by India where an attack was launched late Sunday night.
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India blamed terrorists for shooting at an Indian army camp there.
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This was after troops from India and Pakistan exchanged fire, with each country accusing the other of provoking it.
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As the anger has risen and the relationship has worsened between India and Pakistan, India relocated 10,000 people who were living near a disputed border area of Kashmir.
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These are only the latest incidents in a decade-long dispute over the region.
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Kashmir today looks and sounds on edge, armed, and ready to go off
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Its lands are carved up in an uneasy truce between India, Pakistan, and China, too.
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But before all that, Kashmir was known not as a flashpoint, but as Asia's Switzerland, with beautiful snowcapped peaks and lush valleys, so how did we get here? The troubles began around 1947 when India and Pakistan gained their independence from Britain.
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Pakistan was created out of Muslim-dominated areas.Kashmir was a sticking point.
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It was Muslim majority, but its leader at the time decided to accede to India.
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Now fighting over Kashmir has led to wars in 1947 and again in 1965.
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Even after both India and Pakistan became nuclear, they attacked each other in 1999, stopping short of a full-scale war.
