President Joe Biden has said that the United States knows “with certainty” that an American journalist who has been missing for a decade is being held by the Syrian government and has called on leaders in Damascus to release him.
Biden made the comments in a statement on Aug. 1o marking the 10-year anniversary of journalist Austin Tice’s captivity.
Tice, who wrote for a string of news organizations including CBS News, The Washington Post, and McClatchy, and served in the Marine Corps as an infantry officer, was kidnapped near Damascus on Aug. 14, 2012, while he was reporting on the Syrian civil war….