BUDAPEST, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Hungary is reopening its embassy in Damascus following signs of stabilization in Syria's security situation, foreign minister Peter Szijjarto announced Monday.

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.

He was last seen in Budapest in late May ... who has been held in Syria since 2012. Though he not yet been found, the interim Syrian government said in a statement on Thursday that efforts ...

Mr Timmerman had been reported as missing in May, having last been seen in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. Mr Timmerman said he had snuck from Lebanon into Syria and he was arrested and held in ...

Yusra Mardini spoke to ITV News from Budapest, a city which formed part of her extraordinary escape from Syria in 2015. | ITV National News ...

Budapest. Authorities in Missouri and Hungary had shared photos of a young man who strongly resembles the one shown in footage online from Syria. In interviews with international news outlets on ...

indicating he was last seen in Budapest on May 28. Timmerman said he was on a pilgrimage to Damascus before he was detained by Syrian officials, who found him as he lived in a mountainous area ...

Timmerman, 29, had last been seen in Budapest, Hungary ... gone on a Christian pilgrimage to Lebanon and crossed over into Syria, where he was detained and questioned for hours before a transfer ...

Hungary is reopening its embassy in Damascus, as armed conflict has recently abated and the security situation stabilized in ...

Years of civil war and recent natural disasters have left Syrians greatly in need of humanitarian aid, and international ...

Missouri Highway Patrol said he disappeared from Budapest on May 28. Local Syrian residents and journalists initially − mistakenly, as it turned out − believed Timmerman was Austin Tice ...