US news and world report. The one that makes the Uni rankings.
Here's the thing. Only that site mentioned it. No other side like New York times or Bloomberg confirmed it. Also say say intelligence official believe. What if those intelligence officials just asked Indian officials like TASS did?
That alone makes it suspicious. In this case if we get cnn, Reuters,.Bloomberg etc all confirming the same thing there's more credibility
No this was to Reuters. They are confident because F-16s were not used.