Al-Thawra Net
Yemen’s Ansarullah says Riyadh has released dozens of its fighters under a deal to quell fighting on the Saudi-Yemeni border as peace talks between the warring sides continue in Kuwait.
“We received 40 prisoners, 20 of those were captured inside Yemen,” Reuters quoted a Ansarallh official spokesman, Mohammed Abdulsalam, as saying in a statement on Saturday.
The official, however, did not elaborate on the location where the remaining prisoners are being held.
The development comes as Ansarallah fighters and their allies, on the one hand, and Saudi-backed loyalists to ex-president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, on the other side, are holding UN-brokered negotiations aimed at ending the conflict gripping the impoverished state.
