Activists say pro-Syrian government journalist released

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists and family members of a pro-government journalist say he’s been released after being detained and held incommunicado for eight months.
The brother of Wissam al-Teer thanked Syria’s President Bashar Assad in a Facebook post Saturday for the release, in apparent reference to a presidential amnesty.
The Syrian government, embroiled in a civil war for eight years, is intolerant of criticism and its prisons are brimming with detainees, many of them hel