BBC investigation says Assad regime planned Austin Tice kidnapping for weeks
US journalist Austin Tice's disappearance in Syria in 2012 was the result of a planned kidnapping operation that had been in preparation for more than a month, according to a new investigation. The findings, published on 17 September, say the abduction was not an opportunistic detention at a checkpoint, as many had long assumed. The report also says a member of the group that detained Tice has claimed the operation was sanctioned by Syria's then-leader, Bashar al-Assad.Tice, who had been reporting on the Syrian civil war, was seen getting into a car with a driver he knew and trusted before... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 17 Sep 2026 06:33 LONDON
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