The ouster of President Bashar al-Assad has revived hopes that Tice, who was 31 when he was abducted in 2012, will be found alive.
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Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, an American journalist who has been missing in Syria since 2012, display photos of their son during a news conference in Beirut in 2017. (Bilal Hussein/AP)
A U.S. group is traveling to Syria this week in search of long-missing journalist Austin Tice, after the surprise ouster of President Bashar al-Assad revived hopes that he will be found alive 12 years after his abduction while documenting the country’s brutal civil war.
The head of the Washington-based nonprofit Syrian Emergency Task Force, Mouaz Moustafa, reached the Syrian-Turkish border Tuesday and is scheduled to arrive in Damascus, the capital, on Wednesday, he told The Washington Post in a phone interview.