**Six Yemeni men held in the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay will be repatriated, the Washington Post says.**Quoting unnamed sources, the paper did not specify when the transfer would take place nor did it name the men.
An unnamed Yemen foreign ministry official confirmed the transfer would take place “in the coming days”, AFP news agency reported.
Yemenis account for almost half of the 215 detainees at the military base which President Obama plans to close.
The Washington Post said four Afghan detainees would also be released.
It reported that the move came after high-level talks between the Yemen government and US officials.
President Obama has pledged to shut the centre in Cuba in 2010, and announced this week that many of the prisoners would be transferred to a prison in the US state of Illinois.
Fifteen Yemeni detainees deemed not to have been a threat have been repatriated since 2002, the Post said.
Yemen security forces said they foiled several bomb plots when they killed 34 al-Qaeda militants and arrested 17 in raids through the country, including in the capital, Sanaa this week.
Yemen’s government has many security issues to deal with, including a civil war in the north of the country, and frequent armed pro-independence protests in the south, as well as attacks by al-Qaeda.