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US envoy travels to Syria to find journalist Austin Tice, abducted in 2012
The United States on Monday vowed to make all efforts to bring back journalist Austin Tice, who was abducted in Syria in 2012, with a US envoy heading to the region after strongman Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow.
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Roger Carstens, the US special envoy on hostage affairs, has arrived in nearby Beirut, Lebanon on a mission to find information on Tice, US officials said.
“With every party we engage, we’ll continue to seek information about Austin Tice so that we can find him and bring him home to his family and loved ones,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during an event at the State Department.
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State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said of Carstens’s visit that the United States was ready to “engage with any organisation that might have information about the whereabouts of Austin Tice”.
“As Secretary Blinken has said directly to Austin’s family, including in the past few days, we will not rest until he is returned home safely to his loved ones,” Miller told reporters.
He said that anyone with information on Tice’s whereabouts should contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and was eligible for a reward.
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Tice’s mother, Debra Tice, said on Friday that she had information from the US government that her son is alive and being “treated well”.