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☆ Mother of Austin Tice says discovery of missing American found in Syria feels like a ‘rehearsal’ for when he is found
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Alexandra Marquez | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Despite initial reports on Wednesday that the American found in Damascus might be Austin Tice, Debra Tice said she knew instantly it wasn't her son. We don't think it's Austin, but a lot of people think it's Austin, so we want you to look and see if it's Austin,'" Debra Tice recalled. She described the number of people who reached out to the Tice family that day with congratulatory messages, believing that Timmerman was Austin Tice. Marc and Debra Tice, parents of journalist Austin Tice who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012, hold respective portraits of him during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2017. Last weekend, after he addressed reporters at the White House, President Joe Biden said he believed Austin Tice was still alive.

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Arnaot said Syria's interim government had tried to find Tice to reunite him with his family, but has so far had no luck locating the journalist, now 43. "We tried as much as possible to find information about Austin and return him to his mother, but we have not reached any result," he said. Instead, the State Department said Tice was believed to be in the custody of the Syrian government — a charge vehemently denied by the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. With Assad overthrown by rebel forces, Tice's family has expressed renewed hope that they'll be reunited with their son. Syria’s new rebel coalition is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, a group that emerged from an Al Qaeda affiliate.

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American journalist Austin Tice is alive and in Syria more than a decade after his disappearance, his family says. Tice went missing in 2012 a few days after celebrating his 31st birthday in the country, where he went to report on the civil war that began in 2011. Siblings Meagan Tice Malone and Simon Robert Tice on Monday told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that the family has reliable information that their brother is alive but could not share how they know. Simon Robert was only 19 when his older brother went missing, he said. “We have a strong faith in the American government, and we were all raised with a faith in the American government,” Simon Robert Tice said.

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