Austin Tice, a journalist who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012, is "alive" and being "treated well," his mother, Debra Tice, claims.

DAMASCUS, Syria — The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing in Syria since 2012, said Monday during a visit to the Syrian capital that the incoming Trump administration has offered to help uncover long-awaited answers about the fate of her son.

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice said on Monday she was hopeful that the new administrations in the U.S. and Syria would help her find her missing son, who was taken captive during a reporting trip near Damascus about 12 years ago.

Trump’s “people have already reached out to me. I haven’t experienced that for the last four years,” Debra Tice said. “I have great hope that the Trump administration will sincerely

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice said Monday that the incoming Trump administration had offered its support in finding her son, who went missing in Syria in 2012.

Austin Tice disappeared near the Syrian capital in 2012, and has not been heard from since other than a video released weeks later that showed him blindfolded and held by armed men

Debra Tice, the mother of missing American journalist Austin Tice, visited Syria for the first time in nearly ten years, expressing optimism about support from President Trump's administration. During a press conference in Damascus,

The mother of US journalist Austin Tice said on Monday that Syria's new transitional government was “very keen to work” on her son’s case after meeting its leader. Austin Tice, 43, disappeared in August 2012,