Syria said on Thursday it has handed over to the United Nations a Canadian staffer who went missing eight months ago, accusing opposition militants of having kidnapped him.

Syria said on Thursday it has handed over to the United Nations a Canadian staffer who went missing eight months ago, accusing opposition militants of having kidnapped him.

"The ministry of foreign affairs turned over the Canadian Carl Campeau, an employee of the UN Disengagement Force (UNDOF) who was kidnapped by terrorists in February... to the UN representative in Syria," state television said.

Campeau went missing in February in the Golan Heights. The foreign ministry said Campeau had been kidnapped in Khan al-Shih in Damascus province.

In February, Israeli media reported that Campeau was a lawyer working for UNDOF, which patrols the Israel-Syria ceasefire line.

The United Nations said one of its UNDOF employees had gone missing between the Zionist entity and Syria, without specifying whether he was a peacekeeper or a civilian worker.