The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered his execution, security sources have told ...

Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden each called Tice’s return a top priority but got nowhere with the former Syrian government.

Separately, a former member of the NDF with intimate knowledge of Austin Tice's detention told the BBC "that ... In December 2024, then President Joe Biden told reporters at the White House that "we ...