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Citizen of the United States seized over 1.5 years ago, the rebels-Houthis in Yemen, released. About it reports Reuters with a reference to Secretary of state John Kerry.
According to him, Wellhead Yusuf Pitts Luqman was released with the assistance of Oman. The head of the state Department acknowledged that it was a “positive gesture” by the rebels.
Lukman became the third American who was released by the Houthis since mid-October. Every time a mediator was made by the government of Oman, a US ally in the Persian Gulf.
Lukman, a former us marine, was kidnapped in April 2015 when trying to leave Yemen, where he taught English.
A senior state Department official said Kerry was personally involved in the preparation of the release of Lukman, in close cooperation with Omani officials. In the end, he was released in a controlled by Houthis Yemeni capital Sana’a and taken to Oman on Board belonging to the Sultanate military aircraft.
In Yemen, the ongoing civil war. One side are the military wing of the Houthis, the Shiite movement “Ansar Allah” and those loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the army, for another — the troops of ousted Sunni President Abd-rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Saudi-led coalition. At the end of March 2015, the coalition launched a campaign against the rebels with the aim of returning to power Hadi.