A 30-year-old US man, who was missing since May, has been found among thousands of prisoners freed by Syrian rebels after toppling Assad’s regime. Washington is working to bring him home. Read more to

Travis Timmerman, a missing American from Missouri, was freed from a Syrian prison and found Thursday outside of Damascus trying to make his way out of the country on foot.

The 29-year-old said he was detained earlier this year after crossing into Syria on foot from Lebanon and held in prison until the fall of Assad. Timmerman's family called it a "Christmas miracle."