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Houthis, Yemen government to exchange nearly 3,000 prisoners: Officials

23 December 2025 15:27 (UTC +04:00)

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis and the internationally-recognized government have agreed to a prisoner swap that includes nearly 3,000 people in total, officials from both sides said Tuesday, APA reports, citing Al Arabiya.

Majed Fadhail, a member of the government delegation for the prisoner swap talks, said they had agreed with the Houthis on a new exchange that would see “thousands” of war prisoners released.

Abdulqader al-Mortada, an official with the Houthi delegation, said in a statement on X that “we signed an agreement today with the other party to implement a large-scale prisoner exchange deal involving 1,700 of our prisoners in exchange for 1,200 of theirs.”

Toghrul Guluzade

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