REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SANAA -- Shiite rebels in Yemen released two Americans, two Saudis and a Briton on Sunday after detaining them for around six months, Yemeni and US officials said.

The White House said two of its citizens were flown to Oman where they were met by US consular staff. It did not identify them by name.

However, one was identified as Scott Darden, a 45-year-old logistics manager at the New Orleans-based company Transoceanic Development, a company spokesman told AFP.

Darden -- who has a 10-year-old son -- will be reunited with his wife in Oman on Monday, spokesman Ken Luce said.

He added that Darden, based in Dubai, had been delivering humanitarian supplies in Yemen.

Darden was taken hostage by Shiite Huthis rebels in Sanaa in March, CNN cited a US administration official as saying, while naming the other freed American as Sam Farran.

A rebel Yemeni official and a security source had earlier said three US nationals were released by the Iran-backed Huthis who have controlled the Yemeni capital for the past year.

Huthi officials also provided no information on the identities of the freed foreigners or why they were being held.

An American journalist believed to have been held by the rebels was handed over to Oman in early June along with a Singaporean.

The journalist, Casey Coombs, had been freelancing in Yemen since 2012.

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