On 13th anniversary of Austin Tice’s abduction in Syria, his mother says he’s alive and ‘we will find him’

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Thursday marks the 13th anniversary of the abduction of Houston freelance journalist and former U.S. Marine Austin Tice. He was covering the Syrian Civil War when he was stopped and seized at a checkpoint near Damascus.

Following the collapse late last year of the regime of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Syrian prisons were emptied, and there was a widespread effort to find Austin Tice. He has yet to emerge.

Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., Debra Tice said the Trump administration gave her and her husband access to several binders full of intelligence on their son. The intelligence showed that successive U.S. presidential administrations – including the first Trump administration – had evidence their son was alive in Syrian captivi