The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived in Damascus on Saturday to step up the search for her son and said she ...

Debra Tice, mother of missing American journalist Austin Tice, speaks a press conference in Damascus, Syria on Jan. 20, 2025. Ayman Oghanna for NPR hide caption ...

The family of Austin Tice, a former Marine turned journalist who was kidnapped by jihadist militants in 2012 while reporting in Syria, say he is still alive, citing a “significant source." ...

Top secret intelligence files uncovered by the BBC confirm for the first time that missing American journalist Austin Tice was imprisoned by the regime of the now-deposed Syrian President Bashar ...

Despite initial reports Wednesday that the American found in Damascus might be Austin Tice, Debra Tice said, she knew instantly it wasn't her son. "My oldest daughter came into my room at 4:25 and ...

Austin Tice went missing during a reporting trip in Syria in 2012. His release is a top priority for the U.S. government following a rebel group's ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

“I have great hope that the Trump administration will sincerely engage in diligent work to bring Austin home,” mother Debra Tice said at a Monday news conference in Damascus, her first visit ...

American journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria in 2012, ... Sednaya prison, which is near Damascus, was dubbed the "human slaughterhouse" by Amnesty International, ...

The mother of Austin Tice, who was taken captive in Syria in 2012, ... because Assad's forces shut off the electricity in many of the prisons in Damascus before the president fled. ...

The administration of former President Barack Obama received another tip in 2016 that Tice had been taken to a hospital in Damascus to receive care for an unknown illness, in what would be his ...

Despite initial reports on Wednesday that the American found in Damascus might be Austin Tice, Debra Tice said she knew instantly it wasn't her son. "My oldest daughter came into my room at 4:25 ...