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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Josh Marcus

Mother of missing journalist Austin Tice says American freed in Syria like ‘rehearsal’ of finding son

The scores of prisoners freed after the downfall of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria are giving hope to Debra Tice, mother of the American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing since being detained in 2012.

"It’s almost like having a rehearsal, you know? Just an inkling of what it’s going to really feel like when it is Austin walking free," Tice told NBC News’s Meet the Press on Sunday.

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