A US citizen found walking near Damascus after months in Syrian prison.

A US citizen who was jailed in a Syrian prison for months after entering the country on foot has reportedly been rescued by men with hammers when rebels overturned Bashar al-Assad's administration.   

The guy, later named as Travis Timmerman by the BBC's US news partner CBS, was discovered by people near Damascus.  


Social media   footage showed him lying on a sofa while people talking with local reporters.