Travis Timmerman looks out the window of a van as he is taken to be handed over to U.S. forces near the Syrian border with Iraq and Jordan on Dec. 13.

US military flies American released from Syrian prison to Jordan, officials say Travis Timmerman, 29, told The Associated Press he had gone to Syria on a Christian pilgrimage.

Travis Timmerman, a U.S. citizen found wandering barefoot in Damascus after being freed from a Syrian prison following the fall of the Assad regime, was handed over to U.S. forces in Syria on Friday.