US journalist Austin Tice’s family is furious at CNN over a report strongly suggesting her son — who was taken captive by the Assad regime in Syria 13 years ago — is dead.

A new 20-minute CNN investigation by chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward centers on Austin Tice, who was captured and detained in 2012 by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Tice is the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Clarissa Ward is a Chief Correspondent for International in CNN with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2025 Forum. Debra Tice, mother of ...

(CNN) — “This is either gonna be wildly successful or a complete disaster,” Austin Tice wrote in May 2012, on the eve of a dangerous journey to bear witness to history. “Here goes nothing.” Tice, a ...

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Austin Tice was captured and detained in 2012 by the Assad regime in Syria. Tice is the longest-held American journalist abroad. Assad operative’s claim that Austin Tice is dead is at center of new ...