Two Egyptians detained at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released, the official news agency MENA reported on Thursday.

Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Abdel- Aziz Seif-el-Nasr was quoted by MENA as saying that the two Egyptians had been released from Guantanamo Bay prison and one of them returned to Egypt while the other preferred to stay in Albania.

The Egyptian foreign ministry will continue efforts to secure the release of the remaining three Egyptian detainees in Guantanamo Bay prison, he said.

The United States opened the detention facility at its naval base in Guantanamo in January 2002 to hold terror suspects and Taliban members mainly captured during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.

According to Pentagon, around 380 detainees had left Guantanamo since 2002 for other countries, including Albania, Afghanistan, Britain, Egypt, Iran and Iraq, while about 390 detainees still remained at Guantanamo.

Source: Xinhua