An American journalist living in northwestern Syria for nearly a decade has been released, six months after he was captured by an al-Qaida-linked group, Syrian opposition media reported.
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Bilal Abdul Kareem, a native of Mount Vernon, NY, has been living in the rebel-held Syrian northwest since 2012, reporting on the Syrian government military campaigns against areas in opposition hands.
He had been detained last August, following a report he did about torture in the prisons of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the al-Qaida-linked group that dominates the area. Local prominent figures had appealed to the group to release him.
Abdul Kareem had reported and collaborated with Western news outlets, which had largely stayed out of the war-torn country after a spate of kidnappings. He later set up his own news network, On The Ground News.
