WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
Twelve detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been transferred to Afghanistan, Yemen and breakaway Somaliland, the U.S. Justice Department said on Sunday.

Six Yemeni and four Afghan detainees were sent to their home countries while two Somalis were transferred to regional authorities in Somaliland, an enclave of Somalia, the Justice Department said.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Doina Chiacu)