UN Special Envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg met with Houthi negotiating delegation head Mohammed Abdulsalam in Muscat, Oman, to addr

The UN's special envoy to Yemen called for the release of UN staff held by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels during his visit to Oman where he met officials

The United Nations' special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, met on Sunday with a senior Huthi official in Oman and called for the release of UN staff held by the rebels.

Hans Grundberg, the UN special envoy to Yemen, met with Mohammed Abdulsalam, head of the Houthi negotiating delegation, in Muscat, Oman, to address the detention of UN staff and other personnel in Houthi-controlled Sanaa.

Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman and Yemen discussed yesterday means of enhancing cooperation in the areas of agriculture, fisheries and water resources.

The two Mexicans had been held for over a year after Houthis rebels hijacked their commercial ship, the Galaxy Leader, in Yemen.

Two Bulgarian sailors and a Romanian crew member returned home after being held for 14 months by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, receiving a warm welcome from their families and officials at Sofia airport on Thursday.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader more than a year after they seized the vessel off the coast of Yemen, Al Masirah TV reported on Wednesday. The crew were handed to Oman "in coordination" with Palestinian militant group Hamas after a ceasefire deal in Gaza was brokered with Israel,

The United Arab Emirates has expressed its gratitude for the Sultanate of Oman’s successful mediation efforts, leading to the release of 25 crew members from the Galaxy Leader ship. The ship had been detained off the coast of Yemen for over a year,

Yemen's Houthi rebels said Wednesday they released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vehicle carrier seized in November 2023 at the start of their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war.

Yemen's Huthi rebels on Wednesday freed the crew of the merchant ship Galaxy Leader after detaining them for more than a year, citing the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas as motivation.Weeks after the war in the Gaza Strip broke out on October 7,