Overview

• Debra Tice spoke at the National Press Club on the 13th anniversary of her son’s abduction to assert he is alive.
• She said binders provided by successive U.S. administrations contain intelligence placing Tice in Syrian detention through December 2024.
• The family argues that past offers from Assad’s regime to return Austin Tice were ignored by U.S. officials.
• U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, currently assess Tice is probably dead with low confidence, a determination his parents reject.
• Investigators continue to pursue unverified leads such as a 2013 death claim from former regime insider Bassam al-Hassan and searches of Syrian facilities.