Yemen war parties swap bodies in latest sign of talks progress

Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government have exchanged 64 fighters’ bodies in the third such recent deal, Yemeni media said on Wednesday, the latest sign of progress in talks to end their eight-year conflict.

The bodies were exchanged at the Saudi-Yemeni border where delegations from both sides met after weeks of negotiations in Saudi Arabia, footage and commentary from Houti-run Al Masirah TV on Wednesday showed.

It was not clear exactly when the exchanges took place.

A Saudi-led military coalition in 2015 intervened against the Ansar Allah that ousted Yemen’s internationally recognised government from Sanaa in 2014.