Syrian citizens found one of the five Yemeni officers who were sent to study in Syria, and their fate was hidden since 2012.

The director of the American Center for Justice, Abdul Rahman Berman, said in a post on his official Facebook page that First Lieutenant Hassan Muhammad Yahya Al-Wahaib was identified in a hospital in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and he is in poor health.

A video clip was circulating of the Yemeni officer, where the cameraman said that the person (who is believed to be Al-Wahaib) is in Ibn Al-Nafis Hospital. The video shows the person unable to speak and in deteriorating health.

It was not possible to accurately confirm the person's identity, and no information has been received from his family yet.

Berman indicated that there was “preliminary information about the presence of the two Yemeni officers, Muhammad Abdo Al-Maliki and Ahmed Ali Radman, in Al-Sham Hospital,” adding that “this is being verified,” while the fate of the other two officers remains unknown.

According to a previous publication by journalist Sami Noman dating back to September 2014, the Yemeni officers were kidnapped in September 2012 while traveling from Aleppo to Damascus on their way back to Yemen after completing their studies at a military college in Aleppo. The Al-Nusra Front, affiliated with Al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for their kidnapping.

The officers: Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Abdo Hizam Al-Maliki, Lieutenant Colonel Ali Hassan Ahmed Salama, Captain Hani Saleh Hussein Nizar, Lieutenant Hassan Muhammad Ali Al-Wahaib, and Lieutenant Ahmed Ali Radman, were sent in August 2010 to study in Syria according to an official protocol signed between the two Yemeni governments. And Syria. Their mission ended in September 2012 after they obtained a master's degree from the Military College in Aleppo.

The five officers specialized in civil fields that included: power and machinery electricity, accounting and control electricity, and electronic and communications engineering. After completing their studies, they were unable to be transported by air due to the cessation of air traffic at Aleppo Airport, so they left the city by land to Damascus with the aim of returning by air to Yemen, but the Al-Nusra Front detained them in the Idlib region, located between Damascus and Aleppo.