US-led forces in Iraq have released and sent home eight Arab detainees including three who
were "seriously injured" while in American custody.
The detainees - five Jordanians, two Lebanese and a Syrian - arrived by plane in a small civilian airport in Amman on Saturday.
A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Amman said three of the detainees were hurt while in detention and were now partially disabled, but declined to say how they were injured or why they were detained.
"The eight people arrived in Amman on an ICRC plane after their liberation from a US internment facility in Iraq ," ICRC spokesman Muin Kassis told journalists in Amman.
He said three of the detainees "were injured during the period of their internment".
A Jordanian Foreign Ministry source confirmed the detainees had arrived in Amman. Kassis said the ICRC would fly the Lebanese and Syrian detainees home shortly. The US military said last month that over 300 suspected non-Iraqi fighters were in its custody in Iraq , mainly Syrians and Iranians.