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In terms of an 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 them home, to bring them out of Syria and to bring them home,
he said, according to a State Department transcript
We're very blessed that he is safe, that he is good, that he is protected,
Pixie Rogers said of her brother, Travis Timmerman
God must have a plan for his life,
Kelderhouse saidWe thought it might be a month or two that he’d be gone, ... We thought the money would run out and he’d go home. We didn’t know if he was dead or alive.”
Kelderhouse said, addingI'm not sure what his thinking was in that,
Rogers said of her brother entering a country in conflictI was on a pilgrimage to Damascus,
he told NBC News in a building on the outskirts of the capital
No update on Austin Tice, except to say that every single day, we are working to find him and to bring him home, making sure that the word is out to everyone that this is a priority for the United States,
Blinken said
But for privacy reasons, I can't share any more details about this,
Blinken addedWe’re working to bring him home,
Blinken said during a visit to neighbouring Jordan on Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria,
We think we can get him back, but we have no direct evidence of that yet. And Assad should be held accountable,
the president said on SundayI'm feeling well. I've been fed, and I've been watered, so I'm feeling well,
Timmerman said
We found Travis Timmerman from Urbana, Missouri - an American prisoner liberated from one of Assad’s most notorious prisons. He’s fine. A bit dazed. Didn’t realize the regime had fallen until this morning.”
In a post to X/Twitter, CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer saidHe has made it a priority while he’s there to find all Americans wrongfully detained in Syria, including Majd Kamalmaz, Austin Tice and others whose names are not public.”
Maria Cure, of SETF, said
We have heard from sources that have been vetted by the US government that Austin is alive and he has been well taken care of, those reports are recent, they are fresh and we have every confidence that they are accurate.”
Jacob Tice, Austin’s brother, told Christiane Amanpour of CNN earlier this weekIn the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful, [here is the] American journalist, We don't even know what his name is
The rebel said
I was not beaten and the guards treated me decently,
he added
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 saidWe will not pardon those who were involved in the torture and liquidation of detainees and were the cause of this,
the leader of Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) said
Secretary Austin emphasized the importance of close consultation between the United States and Israel on events in Syria,
the Pentagon saidBoth agreed that an inclusive political process in Syria was now very important and that the transition process needed to be supported. Both attached great importance to the protection of ethnic and religious minorities,
the spokesperson said