An Irish passport holders and three other New York Times journalists who were reported missing while covering the Libya conflict have been found, reports say.
The four were captured by forces loyal to Col Muammar Gadafy and will be released later today, the paper said on its website.
It said Col Gadafy's son, Saif al-Islam, gave the information to Christiane Amanpour in an ABC News interview.
The missing journalists include reporter Stephen Farrell, who holds dual Irish and British citizenship.
In September 2009, Farrell and Sultan Munadi, an Afghan journalist and interpreter, were taken hostage when they went to cover the aftermath of a Nato air strike that killed scores of civilians in northern Afghanistan.
Munadi and a British commando Corporal John Harrison died in the raid that rescued Farrell.
An inquest was held in Salisbury this week into the death of Cpl Harrison (29) from the Parachute Regiment, who led his unit out of a Chinook helicopter under heavy fire in the Special Forces-led pre-dawn operation.
Farrell was also kidnapped in 2004 in Fallujah, Iraq. He previously worked for the London Times.
AP