India and Pakistan signaled they are willing to de-escalate after strikes on military bases by both sides on Saturday raised fears of all-out war and prompted warnings from the US and China.

Pakistan's military said it used medium-range missiles to strike more than 25 military sites before India delivered what it called a "measured" response, as part of the latest escalation in a conflict between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

The neighbors have been in conflict over the disputed border region since their independence and partition in 1947.

Pakistan has confirmed Lashkar-e-Taiba links to past violence in India but says that the group was outlawed and disbanded long ago. The group’s founder, Hafiz Saeed, is free despite brief periods of detention, and Indian officials say that the group continues its activities through cover organization and offshoots, such as the Resistance Front.

India and Pakistan’s latest military conflict has expanded, days after India carried out airstrikes in Pakistan that followed an attack by gunmen on tourists in India-controlled Kashmir last month

Here is a look at the current situation as conflict spreads between the nuclear-armed neighbours. WHERE DID INDIA'S FIRST STRIKES HIT? India says it hit nine "terrorist camps" in Pakistan on Wednesday that were used as indoctrination centres,