US says it is disrupting and degrading Houthi threat. ‘We’re going to keep after it’

The US is going to “keep after” the Houthi threat as questions mount over the effectiveness of the military response to the Yemeni militants’ attacks on shipping.

Air Force major general Pat Ryder, the spokesman for the Department of Defense, told reporters that the US will keep working to ensure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.