The Missouri man, who was reported missing by Hungarian police in an alert published in June, appears to have been freed along with thousands of other detainees who have been emerging from Syria's jails following the toppling of the country's longtime dictator President Bashar Assad earlier this month.

A man freed from a Syrian prison on Thursday after monthslong imprisonment identified himself as Travis Timmerman, an American reported missing by law enforcement earlier this year after traveling to Hungary.

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.