{"id":35718,"date":"2024-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/12\/10\/us-believes-marine-vet-is-alive-after-disappearing-in-syria-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:12:48","slug":"us-believes-marine-vet-is-alive-after-disappearing-in-syria-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2024\/12\/10\/us-believes-marine-vet-is-alive-after-disappearing-in-syria-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"US believes Marine vet is alive after disappearing in Syria in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Joe Biden said Sunday that the U.S. government believes missing American journalist and Marine Corps veteran Austin Tice, who disappeared 12 years ago near the Syrian capital, is alive and that Washington is committed to bringing him home after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-bashar-assad-war-1468a97ff95bb782f5933856d99c9a8d\" target=\"_blank\">Bashar Assad\u2019s ouster from power in Damascus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe think we can get him back,&#8221; Biden told reporters at the White House, while acknowledging that \u201cwe have no direct evidence\u201d of his status. &#8220;Assad should be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden said officials must still identify exactly where Tice is after his disappearance in August 2012 at a checkpoint in a contested area west of Damascus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe&#8217;ve remained committed to returning him to his family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tice commissioned as a Marine officer in 2005 and served multiple Middle East deployments before concluding his time in the Marine Corps Reserve as a captain, including an Afghanistan tour with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He returned to the region as a freelance journalist in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tice, who is from Houston, has had his work published by The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers and other outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2024\/08\/16\/recent-hostage-success-opens-window-to-bring-marine-veteran-home\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tice-cover-horiz.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Hostage return sparks new hope for Marine vet\u2019s liberty<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Twelve years after Marine veteran and journalist Austin Tice&#039;s abduction in Syria, his family continues to hold hope for his safe return.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video released weeks after Tice went missing showed him blindfolded and held by armed men and saying, \u201cOh, Jesus.\u201d He has not been heard from since. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-middle-east-syria-journalists-bashar-assad-f7e100380b1bc75c3c895858db9edbc5\" target=\"_blank\">Syria has publicly denied<\/a> that it was holding him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States has no new evidence that Tice is alive, but continues to operate under that assumption, according to a U.S. official. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. will continue to work to identify where he is and to try to bring him home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His mother, Debra, said at a news conference Friday in Washington that the family had information from a \u201csignificant source,\u201d whom she did not identify, establishing that her son was alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe is being cared for and he is well \u2014 we do know that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tice family met this past week with officials at the State Department and the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo everyone in Syria that hears this, please remind people that we\u2019re waiting for Austin,\u201d Debra Tice said in comments that hostage advocacy groups spread on social media Sunday. \u201cWe know that when he comes out, he\u2019s going to be fairly dazed and he\u2019s going to need lots of care and direction. 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