A number of Al-Qaeda leaders have recently relocated from Iran to Yemen, including former Kuwaiti spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwait newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Citing a western intelligence report, Al-Qabas newspaper said the information came in the western confidential report that was passed to security officials in the Arabian Gulf states and other Arab countries.

Many of Al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan escaped to Iran after the U.S. invasion following the 9/11 attacks, it noted, adding that the Iranian authorities detained some of them and some moved to Yemen and became commanders of the Al-Qaeda branch there.

The newspaper said the relocating commanders included Kuwaiti, Gulf and Arab wanted suspects, but it did not say how they left Iran.