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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