World News | American Who Says He Crossed into Syria on Foot Freed After 7 Months in Detention

Damascus, Dec 12 (AP) An American who says he crossed into Syria on foot has been released after seven months in detention. Travis Timmerman told the Al-Arabiya TV network in an interview on Thursday that he had been treated well. He said he had crossed into Syria from Lebanon on a religious pilgrimage.

Also Read | US: Joe Biden Commutes Roughly 1,500 Sentences and Pardons 39 People in Biggest Single-Day Act of Clemency. He appeared in videos circulating online earlier in the day in which rebels said they had located him and were keeping him safe. (AP) (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body).