Vice President JD Vance urged India and Pakistan to deescalate tensions as both countries launched mass drone attacks against each other, but the U.S. leader declined to intervene.

The burgeoning conflict between India and Pakistan escalated significantly on Thursday, with both countries accusing each other of launching mass kamikaze drone strikes. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with senior figures in India and Pakistan in the aftermath, urging them to deescalate as the conflict rapidly approaches the worst violence between the two since the 1999 Kargil War.