Madian

“Many foreign and Arab companies visited the Syrian Investment Authority,” said Madian Diab, its director.

In Madian village a day before the Churunda attack, 19-year-old Ishtiyaq Ahmad was hit in the shoulder by a bullet fired from a Pakistani army post.

Omani officials and the U.N. envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, helped negotiate the release of Salah and Madian Saleh, the officials said.

The officials, who spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media, say Omani officials and the U.N. envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, helped negotiate the release of Salah and Madian Saleh.

Madian Ibrahim, 45, had come to the ahwa with his wife, two sons and a daughter.