A man identifying himself as Missourian Travis Timmerman tells CBS News he was liberated from a Syrian prison upon dictator Bashar al-Assad's ouster.

The Missouri man, who was reported missing by Hungarian police in an alert published in June, appears to have been freed along with thousands of other detainees who have been emerging from Syria's jails following the toppling of the country's longtime dictator President Bashar Assad earlier this month.

STORY: The United States says it's working to bring home an American citizen found on Thursday in Syria. Speaking to reporters in Jordan, where he held meetings to discuss the political transition in Syria,