Identifying himself only as "Travis," the man told NBC News Foreign Correspondent Matt Bradley that he was a pilgrim and had been detained after crossing into Syria on foot.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An American who says he crossed into Syria on foot has been released after seven months in detention. Travis Timmerman told the Al-Arabiya TV network in an interview on Thursday that he had been treated well. He said he had crossed into Syria from Lebanon on a religious pilgrimage.

American is freed after being detained for seven months in Syria.

A man seen in video that emerged overnight claiming to show a missing American in Syria told NBC News on Thursday that he is a “pilgrim” named Travis from Missouri and not Austin Tice.

A man identifying himself as Missourian Travis Timmerman tells CBS News he was liberated from a Syrian prison upon dictator Bashar al-Assad's ouster.