DAMASCUS, Syria — The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing in Syria since 2012, said Monday during a visit to the Syrian capital that the incoming Trump administration has offered to help uncover long-awaited answers about the fate of her son.

Austin Tice, a journalist who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012, is "alive" and being "treated well," his mother, Debra Tice, claims.

Austin Tice, now 43, was one of the first American journalists ... The State Department contended he was being held by the Syrian government. Former President Bashar al-Assad’s government vehemently denied the accusation. Debra Tice last visited Syria ...

Trump’s “people have already reached out to me. I haven’t experienced that for the last four years,” Debra Tice said. “I have great hope that the Trump administration will sincerely

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived in Damascus to step up the search for her son and said she hopes she can take him home with her.

Austin Tice, an American journalist, has been missing since 2012 after being taken captive in Syria. Despite a 2013 escape attempt in Damascus, he was quickly recaptured. The recent ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has renewed efforts to locate Tice,

Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism (SIRAJ), a collective of journalists and OCCRP partner, found the documents in late December while combing through files left behind during the hasty collapse of the Assad regime earlier that month.

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.

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.

Austin Tice, who worked as a freelance reporter for the Washington Post and McClatchy, was one of the first US journalists to make it into Syria.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The mother of American journalist Austin Tice said on Monday she was hopeful that the new administrations in the U.S. and Syria would help her find her missing son, who was taken captive during a reporting trip near Damascus about 12 years ago.

Last December, rebels led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham or HTS, ousted Syria's former dictator, President Bashar al-Assad. Debra Tice has been trying to work with Syria's de facto new government to find her son, Austin, who is now 43. Her son went ...