Tensions are escalating after India launched missiles on Pakistan, two weeks after a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir killed 26 people. Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief of Foreign Policy,

On April 22, gunmen from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba offshoot, The Resistance Front (TRF), ambushed a group of tourists in a mountain meadow near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir—mostly killing Hindu pilgrims and vacationers. Assailants fired on unarmed men, women and children inuring around 20 others.

India has fired missiles into Pakistan, which is vowing a robust response. The escalation comes on the heels of April’s deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region.