German journalist Eva Maria Michelmann, who went missing in Syria in January and was later confirmed to be detained there, returned to Germany on Friday, her lawyer told AFP.
"It can be confirmed that Eva M. Michelmann was released this morning and returned to Germany this afternoon," Roland Meister said.
Michelmann was able to leave Syria via a third country and from there boarded a flight to Germany, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine.
The journalist initially went missing during an offensive by Syrian government fighters in the northeast of Syria, which had previously been controlled by Kurdish forces.
Reports at the time said she had been taken in a vehicle belonging to government troops in the city of Raqqa, along with Turkish-Kurdish journalist Ahmed Polad.
