{"id":63028,"date":"2025-08-15T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/08\/15\/documents-reveal-new-details-of-austin-tices-capture-and-detention\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:56:26","slug":"documents-reveal-new-details-of-austin-tices-capture-and-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2025\/08\/15\/documents-reveal-new-details-of-austin-tices-capture-and-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents reveal new details of Austin Tice\u2019s capture and detention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For 13 years, the family of Austin Tice, a Marine veteran and freelance journalist taken hostage in Syria in 2012, has sought any information about his whereabouts and condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tice\u2019s mother, Debra Tice, publicly shared some details Thursday from declassified documents she and her husband, Marc Tice, were allowed to view earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debra Tice shared images of some of the documents, many heavily redacted, at the National Press Club during an event that marked the 13th anniversary of Austin Tice\u2019s capture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The documents are part of a larger trove of information shared with the Tice family by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard earlier this year, Debra Tice said. She and her husband spent 17 hours over two days reviewing eight, four-inch binders of materials with intelligence \u2014 much of it uncorroborated \u2014 about their son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, the Tice family was told U.S. officials did not have new information regarding Austin\u2019s capture or detention. But the documents they reviewed showed previously unknown details, including about medical treatment he received while being held in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur government had information almost every single day of Austin Tice\u2019s detention,\u201d Debra Tice said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin Tice worked as a freelance journalist covering Syria\u2019s civil war when he was taken hostage near Damascus around Aug. 13, 2012. He was 31 at the time and had previously served as a Marine captain with deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2024, when the Syrian government fell to rebel forces, there was hope that Austin Tice would be found among the many prisoners. President Joe Biden said<\/a> at the time that Tice was alive, even though officials had no direct evidence of his status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June<\/a>, reports emerged that the U.S. government was investigating claims by a former Syrian official that Tice was killed in Syria in 2013 at the behest of then-President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n\n\n\t