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Yemen's warring sides kick off largest prisoner swap to date

by Ahmed Al-HajNoha Elhennawy
| October 15, 2020 1:06 PM

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's warring sides on Thursday kicked off a long-awaited, U.N.-brokered prisoner exchange, an unprecedented release of detainees amid a conflict that has spawned the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

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