Mother Debra Tice says she has renewed faith in the U.S. government's efforts to locate her son, who has been missing for thirteen years.

I have great hope that the Trump administration will sincerely engage in diligent work to bring Austin home,” Debra Tice said.

Debra Tice, whose son Austin was abducted near Damascus in 2012, said the rebel group that toppled the Assad regime promised support in helping to find him.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes U.S. journalist Austin Tice was still being held in Syria by people loyal to toppled leader Bashar al-Assad.

Austin Tice, an American journalist, was abducted in Syria in 2012 and has been missing since. The fall of the Assad regime is a chance to find him.

"We have a number of people engaged on trying to find Austin Tice and ... U.S. President Joe Biden said earlier this month the U.S. government believes Tice is alive. Tice, who worked as a ...

Just minutes before his presidency ended, as Joe Biden was seated to watch his successor sworn in, his administration announced sweeping pardons to five members of the Biden family. Biden pardoned ...

The deal was struck for Khan Mohammad, a member of the Taliban serving two life sentences in a U.S. prison on "narco-terrorism charges."

Debra Tice, mother of missing Marine veteran and American journalist Austin Tice, has returned to Syria to search for her son who was taken captive in August 2012.

By Erin Banco and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In the early days of 2013, an American man, dressed in ragged clothing, dodged between houses in the streets of Damascus’ upscale Mazzeh neighborhood looking for a civilian to take him to safety after more than five months of captivity in the concrete cells of a local prison.

Donald Trump's appointee to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, reportedly failed to impress key Republican Senators who would oversee her confirmation hearing. Now it's being revealed she may have previously bungled a key moment in the effort to recover American hostage Austin Tice.