U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered his execution, security sources have told ...

Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, who is missing in Syria, speak during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 4, 2018. (Bilal Hussein/The Associated Press) The U.S. government ...

Pope Leo meets with Debra Tice, mother of journalist Austin Tice at the Vatican, June 12, 2025. At left is Cardinal Zenari of Damascus. Austin, an Award-winning journalist and Marine veteran, has ...

Mr. Tice, a former Marine who graduated from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and was also enrolled in law school there, was abducted in August 2012 after traveling to a suburb of Damascus.

President Trump signed an executive order this week lifting most sanctions on Syria. Ahead of that action, U.S. officials ...

The discovery was made as part of an upcoming BBC Radio 4 podcast about the disappearance of Austin Tice. The American journalist vanished near the Syrian capital of Damascus in August 2012, just days ...

The general also reveals his own culpability. In the summer of 2012, Bassam al-Hassan, a shadowy adviser in Mr Assad’s inner circle, learned that Mr Tice was in the suburbs of Damascus.