Yemen Rebels Release Kidnapped Presidential Aide

Yemen's Houthi movement has freed the presidential chief of staff, whom it seized on January 17 during a power struggle with then-President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Houthi official Ali al-Quhoom and two government officials said on Tuesday. The seizure of the aide, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, helped to plunge Yemen into political crisis, resulting in clashes between the Houthis and Hadi's presidential guards that prompted the president and the government to resign. Quhoom said bin...

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