The 29-year-old had last been seen in Budapest, Hungary. He said he was detained earlier this year after crossing into Syria on foot from Lebanon and held in prison until the fall of the Assad regime.
Travis Timmerman, a U.S. citizen who had entered Syria from Lebanon on a Christian pilgrimage and had been detained for several months, speaks with reporters in Damascus on Thursday, after he was found in the village of Thihabiyeh east of the capital following the fall of longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Timmerman was last seen in Budapest, Hungary, in early June. On Thursday, he told reporters in Damascus that he had been on a pilgrimage and was detained earlier this year after crossing into Syria on foot from Lebanon. Locals in the town of al-Thiyabiyah found the 29-year-old man as he wandered barefoot on the streets in the early hours of the morning., Timmerman said that he had been held in isolation in a prison cell and that he was released when opposition forces stormed Damascus andHungarian police released a missing person's report for Timmerman after he attended church in the capital, Budapest, seven months ago.A video circulated earlier Thursday showed Timmerman lying on a mattress under a blanket.
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