DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Three Americans held captive by Shi'ite rebels in Yemen's capital have been freed and were flown to neighboring Oman, Oman's state news agency and officials in Yemen said Thursday.
The short English-language statement on the Oman News Agency said only that the US State Department had asked Oman to bring the Americans out of the country.
Independent security officials in Yemen and members of the Shi'ite rebels known as Houthis said the Americans had been detained for at least two months at a Houthi security building in the rebel-held capital of Sana.
The rebels and the officials did not say why the Americans were held. Two of them were working with the United Nations, the officials said, while offering no information about the third.