Fresh missile attack reported after UK and US airstrikes on Houthi targets

But Dr Tobias Borck, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) think tank, told PA the threat of a wider regional war that has existed since Hamas’ deadly October 7 attack on Israel has not changed in light of the strikes. “However, escalation can happen as a result of accidents and miscalculation, or as a simple compounding of risk, a normalisation of an extremely high level of violence,” he said.