An American who turned up in Syria on Thursday said he was detained after crossing into the country on foot seven months ago on a Christian pilgrimage. Travis Timmerman appears to have been among thousands of people released from the country's notorious prisons after rebels reached Damascus over the weekend,

DAMASCUS, Syria — A Missouri man found in Syria told NBC News on ... Authorities in Missouri and Hungarian capital Budapest had earlier this year put out missing person reports for a man named Pete Timmerman, with Hungarian police identifying him as ...

Timmerman said he had been in Europe prior to embarking on his pilgrimage and eventually traveled from Lebanon into Syria in late May, but was spotted by a border guard and detained. Authorities in Missouri and Hungarian capital Budapest had earlier this ...

The man identifying himself only as “Travis,” and said that he was a pilgrim who had been detained after crossing into Syria on foot.

A man identifying himself as Missourian Travis Timmerman tells CBS News he was liberated from a Syrian prison upon dictator Bashar al-Assad's ouster.

He was last seen in Budapest in late May ... who has been held in Syria since 2012. Though he not yet been found, the interim Syrian government said in a statement on Thursday that efforts ...

Timmerman, 29, had not contacted his family for months after he went on a trip to Eastern Europe. His discovery came in the wake of the overthrow of the Assad regime.

The man told reporters he had entered Syria from Lebanon on a Christian ... saying he had last been located in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, on May 28. In August, the Hungarian police put ...

The 29-year-old from Missouri's Ozarks 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. DAMASCUS, Syria — An American ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — A Missouri man found in Syria told ... Authorities in Missouri and Hungarian capital Budapest had earlier this year put out missing person reports for a man named Pete ...

A Missouri man found in Syria told NBC News on Thursday he spent ... Authorities in Missouri and Hungarian capital Budapest had earlier this year put out missing person reports for a man named ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — A Missouri man found in Syria told ... Authorities in Missouri and Hungarian capital Budapest had earlier this year put out missing person reports for a man named Pete ...