In the most serious escalation between the two countries in two decades, Indian fighter jets crossed the Line of Control, and hit a target that, according to India, was a training camp used by Jaish-e-Muhammad.
Yet Tuesday's air raid represents a significant escalation between the two nuclear-armed powers.
Most analysts had assumed India would not seek to retaliate militarily for fear of prompting a cycle of escalation between the two nuclear-armed states.
JERUSALEM — Syria launched antiaircraft missiles Friday at Israeli jets returning home from a bombing run over central Syria, marking a serious escalation between the two Middle East foes.
It was the first significant escalation between the two candidates.
Right: Community leaders join hands and form a barrier between police officers and protesters in attempt to diffuse the escalation between the two, during a peaceful protest in Ferguson, Missouri, early on Aug. 20, 2014.
Indeed, the length of the camellia weevil rostrum and the thickness of the Japanese camellia pericarp are extraordinary in the weevil genus Curculio and the plant genus Camellia (see [ 40, 49- 52]), suggesting the occurrence of coevolutionary escalation between the two species.
Rousseff, who won a narrow but uncontested mandate, may have the votes needed to remain in power, but the escalation of conflict between two of the country's most powerful figures looks set to worsen the already gloomy outlook for Brazil.
The dramatic escalation in hostility between two candidates, who had mostly avoided each other before the debate, set the stage for a brutal 2 1/2-week stretch that appears set to determine whether Trump will effectively clinch the Republican nomination by mid-March or whether the race will drag on, possibly all the way to the GOP convention in July.
The attack, in a speech Mr. McCain is to give today, marks a sharp escalation in the war of words between two of the leading Republican presidential contenders.
