Article

2020-10-15 Arabia

2 Americans held hostage by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen freed

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

2 Americans held hostage by #Iran-backed Houthis in #Yemen freed#BaghdadPost #MiddleEast https://t.co/3qAHT7SYCB
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) October 14, 2020

Two Americans held hostage by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen were freed on Wednesday as part of a U.S.-backed trade that returned more than 200 of the group’s loyalists to the fractured Middle East country, according to U.S. and Saudi officials, Wall Street Journal reported.

A Royal Oman Air Force plane carrying the two Americans and the remains of a third flew out of Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital of Sana’a, hours after the jet and a companion flight brought the militants back to the country following years stuck in Oman.

The deal secured freedom for Sandra Loli, an American humanitarian worker who was held hostage by the Houthis for about a year, and Mikael Gidada, a U.S. businessman who was held for more than a year, said Kash Patel, a deputy assistant to President Trump who worked on the deal. # id) ?>

Posted by Fred 2020-10-15 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1800 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

07:46 NN2N1
07:44 NN2N1
07:17 Procopius2k
07:13 Procopius2k
07:02 DooDahMan
07:01 DooDahMan
06:58 DooDahMan
06:21 NN2N1
06:17 NN2N1
05:54 Frank G
05:53 NN2N1
05:49 NN2N1
05:49 Grom the Reflective
05:27 Frank G
05:26 NN2N1
05:15 DooDahMan
03:23 Grom the Reflective
03:21 Grom the Reflective
01:14 Skidmark
00:50 Skidmark
00:41 Skidmark
00:34 Skidmark
00:24 Frank G
00:12 Frank G
Merry-Go-Blog