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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Congress Calls on US Administration to Keep Fighting to Free Tice from Syrian Captivity

Austin Tice's parents at a press conference in Beirut in 2018. Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images

The US Congress is exerting more pressure on the US Administration to continue pushing for the release of Austin Tice, a US journalist who is held hostage in Syria.

US Senators Patrick Leahy, Robert Menendez, Jim Risch, and John Cornyn sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging his administration to continue pushing for the safe release of Tice who has been held captive in Syria for nearly a decade.

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