Salah and Medyen Saleh were pardoned by Mehdi Mushat, head of the rebels' supreme political council, and subsequently released, the rebel-run Saba news agency said.
It did not give further details.
Multiple political sources close to the late president said neighboring Oman, which has remained neutral in the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...war, played a major role in brokering their release, which came on condition the two stepped down from Yemeni politics.
former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...'s party, the General People's Congress, has lost its power in the war between the Iran-backed Huthis and Saudi-led pro-government alliance, but continues to be a useful ally for Yemeni politicians seeking broader appeal.
A Saudi-led military coalition backing Yemen's government said Wednesday that Saleh's released sons had been flown out of Sanaa on a chartered U.N. flight to Jordan. That was confirmed by a source at Sanaa international airport.
The coalition accused the rebels of stalling for five days "by refusing to allow the U.N. plane to land at Sanaa international airport", in a statement published by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's state news agency.
Sanaa international airport, controlled by the rebels, has been shut down for years. The Saudi-led coalition controls Yemen's airspace.
A Jordanian official confirmed Saleh's two sons had arrived at Amman's Queen Alia International Airport from Sanaa, where their plane was due to stay for one hour.
"It will go towards a third country," the official said in a statement, without detailing the plane's final destination. "The two sons will not enter Amman."
The Huthis had been allied with Saleh for three years when their alliance collapsed into mutual accusations of treason, leading to armed festivities in the capital and ultimately the ex-president's death at the hands of the rebels in December 2017.
Saleh had made overtures to Saudi Arabia in the weeks leading to his death.
The rebels are believed to still be holding relatives of Ali Abdallah Saleh, including one of his nephews.
Nearly 10,000 people have been killed since the Saudi-led alliance intervened in the Yemen war in 2015, according to the World Health Organization.
The actual corpse count is likely much higher, according to rights groups.