{"id":135699,"date":"2024-12-11T05:32:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135699"},"modified":"2024-12-11T05:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:32:47","slug":"us-rushes-to-uncover-new-information-on-whereabouts-of-austin-tice-after-collapse-of-syrian-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135699","title":{"rendered":"US rushes to uncover new information on whereabouts of Austin Tice after collapse of Syrian regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwpth2001g2cp1fhschnvf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The US government is rushing to uncover new information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice following the collapse of the Syrian government this weekend.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk00063b6mumv35kf2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The stunning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/09\/middleeast\/syria-assad-rebels-explainer-intl-hnk\/index.html\">fall of President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime<\/a> presents an opportunity to try to gather fresh intelligence about the American journalist who was detained in Syria more than a decade ago, current and former US officials said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk00073b6muekl80uy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            One US official told CNN that there is a \u201cfull-court press\u201d to find Tice and that the US is \u201cleaving no stone unturned.\u201d The FBI on Sunday renewed its offer of up to $1 million for information that leads to Tice\u2019s safe return. The US State Department is also offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on Tice.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwy1wx00013b6mkoaonczw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The top US hostage negotiator, Roger Carstens, has traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to engage with stakeholders there. The US has conveyed to the leading rebel group in Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known as HTS, that Tice is a priority.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk00083b6m1xf34kto@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIn all of our communications with parties that we know talk to HTS, we have sent very clearly the message that, as they move through Syria liberating prisons, that our top priority is the return of Austin Tice,\u201d State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Tuesday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk00093b6mse7jp9d7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The US believes Tice was held by the Assad regime, but the Syrian leader never acknowledged detaining him. The US is operating under the assumption that Tice is alive as they have \u201cno information to the contrary,\u201d White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/06\/politics\/austin-tice-family-alive\/index.html\">Tice\u2019s mother said last week<\/a> that the family had new information that her son is \u201cbeing cared for, and he is well.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000a3b6m6mhraomn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A second US official told CNN the US is looking at all prisons it knew about and those it is now learning about in the wake of the regime collapse as possible sources of information. The US is working to get confirmation of which prisons have been searched and cleared and to get to ones that haven\u2019t.<strong> <\/strong>The US is also trying to get any resources and equipment that might help enhance searches for Tice.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000b3b6m3a71ki5w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            One former senior US official said that \u201cit\u2019s certainly a fleeting opportunity\u201d to gather new information about Tice, who was detained at a checkpoint near the Syrian capital of Damascus in August 2012.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000c3b6m0ofbz9s7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt is likely that the (CIA) and the rest of the intelligence community, which has had difficulty operating in that very challenging space \u2026 since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, they are likely pushing back in and trying to reestablish collection platforms from on the ground, rather than doing it from a distance,\u201d the former official told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000d3b6m6xbg9h9g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Those involved with the efforts to find Tice will be looking for any documents or materials \u201cthat will paint a picture of what has happened over the past decade plus since Austin was taken,\u201d the former official said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000e3b6mvflc3nn5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThose have been ongoing efforts from a variety of means since he\u2019s been taken, but now you have people on the ground with direct access,\u201d they said. \u201cHopefully, before looting gets out of control, or before things are destroyed, they have access and the ability to start collecting and analyzing those materials.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000f3b6mvwe96680@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            They\u2019ll also be looking for \u201cany evidence of presence in locations that he might have been reported to have been held,\u201d the former official said. The former official noted they will have to conduct interviews of people believed to be involved in holding Tice, including Syrian intelligence personnel \u2013 and to do that, they\u2019ll have to negotiate with the Syrians now in charge. This official told CNN that they believe the US should take this opportunity to establish a dialogue with HTS leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/09\/politics\/who-is-the-leader-of-syrias-rebels-and-what-does-he-want\/index.html\">Abu Mohammad al-Jolani<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000g3b6mrrnfqerv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The State Department would not say whether there has been any direct contact with Jolani, who leads a US-designated terrorist group. There is \u201cno legal barrier\u201d to direct communications, State Department spokesperson Miller said Tuesday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000h3b6m7t2qbfls@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe have the authority to do that under US law,\u201d he said. \u201cThat said, I\u2019m just not going to get into individual conversations. We have made clear to all the relevant parties inside Syria what our priorities are, both in the immediate term, and what our priorities are over the intermediate term for the transition process and the formation of a new government.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000i3b6m9spclnfe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Thus far, the efforts have yet to yield new information about Tice, Miller and Kirby said Tuesday. Still, the Tice family is hopeful the swift changes on the ground in Syria may lead to their long-awaited reunion.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000j3b6mievbhofs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI do believe he will be found,\u201d Debra Tice, Austin\u2019s mother, told \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d on Monday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrfhk000k3b6mjeoor5o8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIn chaos, there\u2019s opportunity. This is an opportunity, and it feels stronger than any that we\u2019ve seen or felt in a long time,\u201d said Marc Tice, Austin\u2019s father.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/10\/politics\/austin-tice-search-syria\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The US government is rushing to uncover new information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice following the collapse of the Syrian government this weekend. 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