The United States has no new evidence that Tice is alive, but continue to work on the assumption that he isaccording to a US official. His mother stated last week that the family has information about a “important source”, which he did not identify, that he is alive.
The President of the United States stated, this Sunday, that his government believes that the American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared 12 years ago in Syria, is alive and announced that Washington wants to bring him back after the removal of al-Assad. .
“We think we can bring him back,” Joe Biden told reporters at the White House, acknowledging that they do not have “concrete evidence” of Tice’s condition.
“Assad must be held accountable” for the case, Biden said.
A video released weeks after the journalist’s disappearance showed Tice blindfolded and being held by armed men.At the time, Syria publicly denied that it was detaining Ticewho had works published in the Washington Post.
The United States has no new evidence that Tice is alive, but continue to work on the assumption that he isaccording to a US official. The employee, that he was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymitysaid the US will continue to work to identify where the journalist is.
His mother, Debra Tice, said Friday that the family has information of a “important source”, which he did not identify, that he is alive.
“He is being treated and is fine. We know that,” he said.
The end of a 24-year regime in a few hours
O who governed the Arab country since 1971, fell this Sunday to the hands of mainly Islamist insurgents led by the Levant Liberation Organization (Hayat Tahrir al Sham, or HTS)who took Damascus with little resistance after a 12-day offensive.
The rebels declared, on the same day, Damascus ‘free’ from President Bashar al-Assadafter 12 days of offensive by a coalition led by the Islamic group Levant Liberation Organization (Hayat Tahrir al Sham or HTS, in Arabic), together with other factions supported by Turkey, topple the Syrian government.
