Yemen: al-Houthi rebels free 200 captured soldiers in Amran province
Yemeni rebels freed on Wednesday 200 soldiers they had captured two days earlier and promised to release other prisoners, both civilian and military, a mediator said.
“The Houthi rebels freed soldiers captured” during fighting in the al-Amishiya region of the northern province of Amran, said the mediator.
AFP confirmed this from tribal sources close to the rebels.
On Tuesday, a military official said the Houthis had captured 200 soldiers,” which he said belong to the 72nd Regiment of the army’s Republican Guards.”