WARRING PARTIES FINISH TWO-DAY PRISONER SWAP

SANAA/ADEN Yemen's warring parties exchanged hundreds more prisoners on Friday on the second and final day of an operation to fly about 1,000 men home and help build momentum for a new push to end a catastrophic war.

A Saudi-led military coalition, backing the internationally recognized Yemeni government, and its adversary, Yemen's Houthi movement, agreed last month to exchange 1,081 prisoners, in the largest swap of its kind in the five-year-old conflict.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said 1,056 in total were returned home.

Men descending from a plane when it landed in Aden, temporary capital of Yemen's government, prostrated their foreheads to the tarmac. Some embraced waiting friends and relatives.