Austin Tice: Missing US journalist's mother renews Syria search

Debra Tice says she has "no idea" where her son is following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

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Debra Tice's visit comes in the wake of the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in a lighting rebel offensive last month. Her son, a freelance journalist who is now 43, was taken captive as he travelled through the Damascus suburb of Darayya covering the Syrian civil war.

"We had information, but the whole world changed," she said in an interview in the Syrian capital, Damascus, referring to Assad's removal from power.

"We have no idea where he is now. It feels a little bit like square one, trying to figure that out again."

Tice was last seen in a video posted online weeks after his capture, blindfolded and in apparent distress. No government or group has claimed being behind his disappearance, although over the years, US officials said they believed Tice was being held by the Assad government.

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