Timmerman said he was on a pilgrimage to Damascus before he was detained by Syrian officials, who found him as he lived in a mountainous area near the Lebanese border “without food and water” for three days, though it’s not immediately clear how long Timmerman was imprisoned, NBC News reported.

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 United States is working to bring home an American citizen found on Thursday in Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Jordan, where he held meetings to discuss the political transition in Syria.