The Yemeni rebels and government forces freed scores of prisoners Sunday, including a woman, on the last of a three-day exchange of nearly 900 detainees, boosting hopes of ending their protracted war. Five flights carrying nearly 200 detainees from both sides flew between the Huthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa and the government-controlled northern city of Marib. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that brought the number of prisoners freed over the three days to 869 under a deal agreed in Switzerland last month. Among those exchanged on Sunday was one woman, Samira March, whom government forces detained five years ago and accused of organising explosions that killed dozens.

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