Two Qatari citizens who endured a 16-month hostage ordeal in Iraq spoke of their joy at being released, in the first public comments since the group were freed.

Mohamed Marzouki was among 26 Qataris and two Saudis who were on a hunting trip in southern Iraq when they were kidnapped in late 2015.
They flew back to Doha on Friday following their release.
"When I saw the lights of Doha, I felt like life was beginning again - my happiness is indescribable," Marzouki told the local Arabic daily newspaper, Al-Sharq.
"My joy at returning to the homeland is a feeling that cannot be described in words."
A fellow hostage, Khalid bin Dhafer al-Dosari, told the same newspaper that "all our aches and pains disappeared once we reached our homeland".
After flying home on Friday, the hunters were met at Doha's International Airport by HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.

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