By Maya GebeilyDAMASCUS (Reuters) -The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived in Damascus on Saturday to step up the search for her son and said she hopes she can take him home with her.

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 has made her first visit to Syria in almost a decade and says that the administration of President-elect Donald Trump had offered support to help find 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

DAMASCUS, Syria— Debra Tice, the mother of American journalist Austin Tice who went missing in Syria twelve years ago, is visiting Syria and meeting with officials in the country's new de facto government in the hopes of finding new clues as to her son's ...

The mother of U.S. journalist Austin Tice says she has been in contact with incoming Trump administration officials about locating her son, who has been missing in Syria since 2012. “I have great

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.

Mother Debra Tice says she has renewed faith in the U.S. government's efforts to locate her son, who has been missing for thirteen years.

"Hostage Aid Worldwide invites you to a news conference with Debra Tice, mother of Austin Tice, the U.S. journalist who has been missing in Syria for the past 12 years and Families for Freedom, a women-led movement of Syrian families advocating for the freedom of their loved ones arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared in Syria.

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived in Damascus on Saturday to step up the search for her son and said she hopes she can take him home with her,

Hostage aid group searches Syrian prisons and other locations for the journalist and former US Marine, who has been missing since 2012