Biden: US knows ‘with certainty’ Syria holding missing journalist Austin Tice

Debra Tice, the mother of missing journalist Austin Tice, outside the Washington Post headquarters on Tuesday. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Joe Biden has said that the US knows “with certainty” that the Syrian government is holding Austin Tice – an American journalist who has been missing for a decade – and called on Damascus to release him.

Ten years after the freelance reporter disappeared while reporting on the Syrian war, Biden said the US government knows “that [Tice] has been held by the Syrian regime”.