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Group says missing journalist Austin Tice still alive in Syria, mum on details
Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, who is missing in Syria, speak during a press conference at the Press Club, in Beirut, Lebanon, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
US group Hostage Aid Worldwide says it believes journalist Austin Tice, missing in Syria since 2012, is still alive.
The group does not offer concrete information on his whereabouts or evidence to back the assertion.
“We have data that Austin is alive till January 2024, but the president of the US said in August that he is alive, and we are sure that he is alive today,” Hostage Aid Worldwide’s Nizar Zakka says.
Efforts to locate Tice have stepped up since the regime of former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad fell to Islamist insurgents earlier this month.
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