ABU DHABI: Three Filipino civil engineers and a South Korean colleague kidnapped in Libya last July have been released and flown to the United Arab Emirates, the UAE foreign ministry said Friday.

It said the engineers held by unidentified armed groups were freed through joint efforts by Abu Dhabi and military strongman Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army.

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