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, a U.S. official stated on Friday.

The official, talking on situation of anonymity, stated that Timmerman had been transferred to Jordan and was presently with State Division officers.

Timmerman went lacking in June, in keeping with his dad and mom. 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 U.S. had no prior indication the person was in Syria.

Assad fled to Russia after a 13-year civil battle and greater than 5 many years of his household’s autocratic rule, throughout which Syria ran one of the vital 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 1000’s 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 a contract journalist, was 31 when he was kidnapped in August 2012 whereas reporting in Damascus.