US man found near Damascus after being freed from Syrian prison

An American antheral identifying himself arsenic Travis Timmerman has been recovered adjacent the Syrian superior Damascus aft being freed from a situation arsenic rebels took implicit the country.

Mr Timmerman, who said helium was arrested upon entering Syria 7 months ago, told the BBC's US quality spouse CBS that helium had been trying to marque his mode retired of the state since being released aft the autumn of Bashar al-Assad.

He said 2 men equipped broke his situation doorway down connected Monday with a hammer.

"My doorway was busted down, it woke maine up," helium said.

"I thought the guards were inactive there, truthful I thought the warfare could person been much progressive than it ended up being… Once we got out, determination was nary resistance, determination was nary existent fighting."

The 30-year-old said helium near situation with a ample radical of radical and had been attempting to marque his mode to Jordan.

He said helium "had a fewer moments of fear", erstwhile helium near the prison, adding that helium had since been much disquieted astir uncovering determination to sleep.

Mr Timmerman had been missing from Budapest successful Hungary since February, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Thousands of prisoners person been released since the autumn of Assad implicit the weekend.

The Assad authorities was notorious for its highly harsh prisons, with the UK-based monitoring radical Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimating that astir 60,000 radical were tortured and killed successful the prisons tally by Assad.

However, Mr Timmerman appears to person been comparatively well-treated, telling CBS: "I'm feeling well. I've been fed and I've been watered, truthful I'm feeling well."

He added that helium had had the usage of a mobile telephone during his detention and had spoken to his household 3 weeks ago.