A U.S. citizen was killed in Syria after videos surfaced showing him among a group of Druze men apparently being recently executed by Syrian government forces, the U.S. State Department confirmed on Tuesday, ABC News reported.
Family and friends confirmed to ABC News that one of the men executed in the videos filmed in Sweida’s Tishreen Square on July 16 amid ongoing fighting at the time between Syrian Druze groups and Bedouin tribes was Hosam Saraya, an American citizen.
Saraya, 35, was visiting his family in Sweida in southern Syria from Oklahoma City, where he lived, NBC News reported.
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