Explained: Who is Austin Tice, the American journalist who disappeared in Syria a decade ago? | Explained News,The Indian Express
The Joe Biden administration has initiated new efforts to locate missing journalist Austice Tice, who disappeared from Syria while covering the civil war in 2012. Who is Tice, and what do we know about his disappearance? Why have efforts to trace him failed so far?
The United States administration has initiated new efforts to locate missing journalist Austice Tice, who disappeared from Syria while covering the civil war in 2012. Nearly a decade later, the US is seeking Lebanon’s help to locate Tice.
Lebanon’s intelligence chief Major General Abbas Ibrahim on Friday said he would visit Syria for talks with the country’s leaders about the fate of Tice. Three administrations of the United States government have tried to negotiate with Syria to bring back the journalist.
So, who is Austin Bennett Tice and why have US negotiations failed to bring the journalist back home?
Austin Tice is a former member of the US Marine corps. He has worked as a journalist for different news agencies, including The Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers, The Associated Press, CBS and others. He went missing in Syria on August 14, 2012. He was one of the few journalists reporting from Damascus during the Syrian Civil War (2011-present) when he disappeared. Hailing from Houston in Texas, Austin is the oldest of the seven siblings in the Tice family.
Tice disappeared three days after his 31st birthday. According to The Associated Press, Tice was last seen at a checkpoint in Daraya, a Damascus suburb. His last tweet was posted a day after his birthday on August 11, 2012.
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