Tice, 43, was kidnapped while reporting in the war-torn Middle Eastern country on August 13, 2012, and his family have been striving to secure his safe return.

A Trump Tower in Damascus, a detente with Israel and U.S. access to Syria's oil and gas are part of Syrian leader Ahmed ...

Austin Tice, the American journalist and Marine veteran who went missing 12 years ago while reporting on the Syrian civil war ...