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Oman’s Foreign Ministry today announced that two Americans, three Saudis and a British hostage were released.

A statement from the National Security Council did not identify the Americans or detail the circumstances of their captivity or their release.

PM Khaled Bahah will hold a meeting in the next two days in Aden in which reconstruction and humanitarian relief top the agenda.

Yemeni Vice President and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and his cabinet returned to Aden on Wednesday, saying they intend to run the country from there until they can go back to Sanaa.

Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen claim to have captured several troops from Saudi Arabia, which is leading a coalition against the insurgents, parading one of the soldiers on television.

Yemen’s Cabinet was back in the country after months spent in self-imposed exile in Saudi Arabia and was working Wednesday out of the southern port city of Aden, a government spokesman said.

A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia has stepped up its attacks on Iranian-supported Houthi rebels in Yemen’s central province of Marib, as its forces draw nearer to the capital San’a.

Five civilians, including two women, were killed when a coalition raid targeting rebels in northern Sanaa hit three houses, witnesses said.

Coalition officials have said they aim to move north to retake Sana’a from the Houthis, who are backed by former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

An army convoy was bombed Sunday, killing 16 soldiers and on Tuesday, 14 police officers lost their lives in an attack on their minibus.

The Kurds in Turkey suffered decades of official discrimination and denial of their culture’s existence.

Forty-five soldiers from the United Arab Emirates’ military, 10 from Saudi Arabia and five from Bahrain have been killed while taking part in a military campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, in the deadliest day for Gulf forces since the conflict began.

The witnesses said the coalition warplanes pounded positions of the Houthi rebels and bases of splinter troops loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

One guardsman was reported on Monday as having been killed in the unrest and almost 90 wounded.

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