United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said the world power is seeking a “de-escalation” in the Middle East despite its strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen, AFP reports.

“We seek to stop the spread of conflict and to create the conditions for de-escalation,” Sullivan said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

He said that the United States saw a “pathway” to preventing the Gaza crisis from escalation into a larger conflict.

“We are eagerly working with partners throughout the region to try and pursue a pathway. But in the meantime, we have to guard against and be vigilant against the possibility that, in fact, rather than heading towards de-escalation, we are on a path of escalation that we have to manage,” Sullivan said.