American who says he crossed into Syria on foot is free after 7 months in detention

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There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials traveling with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Aqaba, Jordan.

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Timmerman told Al-Arabiya that he spent a month in the eastern Lebanese city of Zahle, from where he crossed into Syria illegally.

He said he had heard other young men being tortured while he was detained but that he himself had not been mistreated.

“It was OK. I was fed. I was watered. The one difficulty was that I couldn’t go to the bathroom when I wanted to,” he said. He said he was only allowed to go to the bathroom three times a day.

“I was not beaten and the guards treated me decently,” he said.

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