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Syrian government hands over rescued American to US soldiers
13 December 2024 19:09 GMT
Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led government handed over missing American citizen Travis Timmerman on Friday to American military officials, according to the Syrian government's political affairs office, which posted pictures of the meeting.
HTS did not say where the handover occurred but posted images of an HTS official, Timmerman, and a US military official standing together.
Timmerman said he was on a religious pilgrimage when Bashar al-Assad's government arrested him. He was freed with other Syrian prisoners and discovered by Syrian villagers after Assad's government fell over the weekend.
The handover was notable because it indicates direct US engagement with HTS despite the leaders of Syria's new government being on a US terror list.