Austin Bennett Tice (born August 11, 1981) is an American freelance journalist and a veteran U.S. Marine Corps officer who was kidnapped while reporting in Syria on August 13, 2012. [5] He is the longest-held American journalist. [6]

Tice is now the focus of a massive manhunt following the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad this week after 13 years of civil war.

Dec 13, 2024 · U.S. officials say that Tice's 2013 escape from prison, where he was believed to have been held by a pro-government militia, is the strongest evidence the U.S. government has to suggest that ...

Dec 16, 2024 · The man, journalist Austin Tice, was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012. A former Marine, he had managed to slip out of his cell, one current and three former U.S. officials and a person with knowledge of the event told Reuters.

Dec 14, 2024 · Mr Tice’s 2013 escape, reported here for the first time, was the first public sighting of the American after he disappeared, the officials said. Mr Tice is now the focus of a massive manhunt...

Dec 17, 2024 · For years, the United States has collected tips about the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist who was abducted in Syria in 2012, briefly escaped and then vanished in that...

Aug 15, 2024 · In a statement Wednesday, President Joe Biden said, “This week marks 12 long, terrible years since American Austin Tice was abducted in Syria. We have repeatedly pressed the government of Syria...

Dec 14, 2024 · Tice is now the focus of a massive manhunt following the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad this week after 13 years of civil war.

Tice, now 43, was reporting on the Syrian civil war as a freelance journalist for The Washington Post and McClatchy News when he went missing. Tice’s journey began with academic and military...

Aug 14, 2022 · American journalist Austin Tice is believed to have been kidnapped in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, in 2012. His mother says he's being held with a "government-related entity" in Syria.