Who Is Lindsey Snell? Turkey Detains US Journalist While Exiting Syria, State Department Says

Lindsey Snell, a freelance journalist from the U.S., has been detained in Turkey since Aug. 7, the State Department confirmed Wednesday. Turkish authorities have charged her with violating a military zone while entering the country from Syria, the department said.

Snell has been placed at a prison facility in the southern Turkish province of Hatay and U.S. consular officials visited her last Friday, Aug. 26, State Department spokesman John Kirby said. He declined to say why Snell was in Syria.