ELEVEN Yemenis held without charge for more than two decades at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been transferred to Oman, the US Department of Defence has announced.

The Pentagon named the 11 men as Uthman Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman, Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, Khalid Ahmed Qassim, Suhayl Abdul Anam al-Sharabi, Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Tawfiq Nasir Awad al-Bihani, Omar Mohammed Ali al-Rammah, Sanad Ali Yislam al-Kazimi, Hassan Muhammad Ali Bib Attash, Sharqawi Abdu Ali al-Hajj and Abd al-Salam al-Hilah.

Announced on Monday, the transfer leaves the number of Guantanamo detainees at 15.