WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American citizen Travis Timmerman has been flown out of Syria, the place he was imprisoned earlier than being launched by rebels this week, U.S. officers stated on Friday.
The official, talking on situation of anonymity, stated that Timmerman had been transferred to Jordan and was at present with State Division officers.
A second official stated that Timmerman had been handed to U.S. troops at Tanf garrison, which is close to the intersection of the borders of Syria, Iraq and Jordan, and was flown out from there.
Timmerman went lacking in June, in accordance with his mother and father. He was free of jail earlier within the week after Syrian insurgent teams ousted the nation’s longtime President Bashar al-Assad.
The White Home on Thursday stated that the US had no prior indication that the American was in Syria.
Assad fled to Russia after a 13-year civil struggle and greater than 5 many years of his household’s autocratic rule, throughout which Syria ran probably the most oppressive police states within the Center East.
Following his ouster, Syrians flocked to the notorious prisons the place the Assad regime is estimated to have held tens of hundreds of detainees.
Austin Tice, one other U.S. citizen who was kidnapped in Syria over a decade in the past, has nonetheless not been discovered.
Tice, a former U.S. Marine and freelance journalist, was 31 when he was kidnapped in August 2012 whereas reporting in Damascus.
