Jackson says the release would be a ' humanitarian act of their own volition '' and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson says he 's helping to negotiate the release . FARC , whose name in Spanish is the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia , began fighting the government in the 1960s , making it Latin America 's oldest guerrilla force . Kevin Scott Sutay was captured by Syrian rebels in June . He is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Afghanistan .
Jackson says the release would be a ' humanitarian act of their own volition '' and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson says he 's helping to negotiate the release . Kevin Scott Sutay was captured by Syrian rebels in June . He is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Afghanistan .