Renewed Efforts to Locate Missing Journalist Austin Tice After Assad Regime's Fall

The U.S. presses Syrian rebel groups and regional allies to assist in the search for Tice, missing since 2012, as evidence emerges he may have been alive as recently as 2022.

Austin Tice, an American journalist kidnapped in Syria in 2012, is believed by U.S. officials to still be alive, though no direct evidence confirms this.
The U.S. State Department has called on Syrian rebel groups, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, to assist in locating Tice as they liberate prisons in Damascus following the collapse of the Assad regime.
A former Syrian prisoner reported seeing Tice in a Damascus intelligence facility as recently as 2022, describing him as alive but in poor condition during his detention.
The U.S. has increased its reward for information leading to Tice's recovery to $10 million and is engaging regional allies in efforts to secure his release.
Tice's family remains hopeful as they urge anyone with information to assist, drawing parallels to the reunification of other families with loved ones freed from Assad's prisons.