USA – The United States is working to get an American citizen found on Thursday in Syria out of the country and bring him home, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Jordan, where he held meetings to discuss the political transition of Syria. In media reports, the man was identified as Travis Timmerman. “In terms of American citizen who was found just today, I can’t give you any details on exactly what’s going to happen, except to say that we’re working to bring him home, to bring him out of Syria,” Blinken told reporters in Aqaba, “but for privacy reasons, I can’t share any more details about this,” Blinken added. CBS News reported that Timmerman identified himself as an American from Missouri and that he was freed from a prison earlier in the week after Syrian rebel groups ousted the country’s longtime president Bashar al-Assad over the weekend. Assad fled to Russia after a 13-year civil war and more than five decades of his family’s autocratic rule, during which Syria ran one of the most oppressive police states in the Middle East. (Reusters)

Photo: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to reporters on the tarmac before his departure from King Hussein International Airport in Jordan’s southern Red Sea coastal city of Aqaba. (Reuters)