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President Donald Trump He said he would continue to look for Austin Tice, an American journalist who disappeared in Syria in 2012.
Tice, who previously served as a captain at Marine Corps and was a student at Georgetown University Law Center, began working as an independent journalist for McClatchy, Washington Post and other outlets in Syria in May 2012 before being seized by jihadist militants near Damascus.
Trump said that although “there were almost no signs,” his administration would continue to try to secure Tice’s release.
“Until we find out something finally, one way or another, we will never stop watching,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “But we were also an answer – it’s just a lot of dead streets. It’s a long time. The problem is that there was never a vision.”
Austin Tice: FBI restores pushes to find a abducted American journalist in Syria
Free journalist Austin Tice disappeared in Syria in 2012 and has not heard since then. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Trump comments come after Tice’s mother, debra, told reporters At the National Press Club in December, they received information that suggests that her son is still alive.
“We have from a significant source that has been checked throughout our Government: Austin is alive,” said his mother Debra Tice on December 6th. Later, she met with former President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, in the White House to talk about her son’s wrong custody.
In the meantime, the rebels ended in December in December, Syrian President Bashar Assad, which forced the FBI to issue a statement in which he reiterated his pressure from April 2018. For more information they could lead to the publication of TICE.
“Considering recent events in Syria, the FBI renews our call for information that could lead to a safe place, recovery and return of Austin Bennett Tice, which was detained in Damascus in August 2012,” the FBI statement said.
Austin Tice: What to know about an American journalist missing in Syria
Debra Tice, mother of Austin Tice, speaks during a press conference who updated the media about the state of her oldest son while the family continues to commit him to his release on December 6, 2024 at the national press club in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
“The FBI and our government partners are still dedicated to bringing Austin to their family home, and we still offer a $ 1 million reward for information that brings to Austin’s safe return,” the FBI said.
Both Trump’s first administration and Biden administration have initiated efforts to improve the release of TICE. Biden urged the Syrian government to release the Tice in 2020 and said that now they knew with certainty that the Syrian regime would be hostage. Syria publicly denied that she had detained the tick.
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There were 46 US nationals who were trapped in 16 different countries in 2024, according to the Foley Non -Profit Organization Foundation, which is advocated by US hostages and named after James Foley, an American journalist, abducted in Syria in 2012 and killed by ISIS in 2014, which is probably closer to the low share in January, Trumps were closer to a low 30.
Fox News’ Michael Dorgan and Stephany Price contributed to this report.
